GNU Emacs Manual - RegText

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## Saving Text in Registers

When you want to insert a copy of the same piece of text several times, it may be inconvenient to yank it from the kill ring, since each subsequent kill moves that entry further down the ring. An alternative is to store the text in a register and later retrieve it.

`C-x r s r`
  Copy region into register r (`copy-to-register`).
`C-x r i r`
  Insert text from register r (`insert-register`).

`C-x r s r` stores a copy of the text of the region into the register named r. Given a numeric argument, `C-x r s r` deletes the text from the buffer as well.

`C-x r i r` inserts in the buffer the text from register r. Normally it leaves point before the text and places the mark after, but with a numeric argument (`C-u`) it puts point after the text and the mark before.

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