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Editors collectively maintain a copy ring that holds up to 30 previous
copies (and cuts) among the editors. When it is called as the next
method on an editor after a paste, the
paste-next method replaces the text from a previous paste with the next data in
the copy ring, incrementing the ring pointer so that the next
paste-next pastes in even older data.
It is a copy ``ring'' because the ring pointer wraps back to the most recent copied data after the oldest remembered data is pasted. Any cut, copy, or (regular) paste operation resets the copy ring pointer back to the beginning.
If the previous operation on the editor was not a paste, calling
paste-next has no effect.