18 Registers
Emacs registers are compartments where you can save text,
rectangles, positions, and other things for later use. Once you save
text or a rectangle in a register, you can copy it into the buffer
once, or many times; you can move point to a position saved in a
register once, or many times.
Each register has a name, which consists of a single character. A
register can store a number, a piece of text, a rectangle, a position,
a window configuration, or a file name, but only one thing at any
given time. Whatever you store in a register remains there until you
store something else in that register. To see what a register r
contains, use M-x view-register.
- M-x view-register <RET> r
- Display a description of what register r contains.
