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  • when I press M-y it says previous command was not a yank Commented Mar 27, 2015 at 14:52
  • @Vass Yes, you'll have to run the command yank (C-y), then press M-y to cycle through. Commented Mar 27, 2015 at 14:58
  • I select text and then press C-y and it gets pasted on the spot Commented Mar 27, 2015 at 15:02
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    @Vass I don't understand what you mean. C-y runs the command yank, which is analogous to the concept of "pasting". Each time you kill text, or copy it with C-w (kill-ring-save), it gets pushed to the kill-ring. When you hit C-y, this pops the first element of the kill-ring and inserts it into the buffer. Subsequent presses of M-y (kill-ring-pop) will cycle through the elements saved in the kill-ring. Commented Mar 27, 2015 at 15:08
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    @Vass, oops, that is a typo on my part. It should have read M-w. The command is right, though. Commented Mar 27, 2015 at 15:51