Emacs: How to yank the last yanked text regardless of subsequent kills?

Question

I often find myself repeatedly yanking something after doing some kills and it becomes a process like:

1. C-y
2. C-y M-y
3. C-y M-y M-y
4. C-y M-y M

Answer 1

1. If you want to repeatedly yank the same text, use the secondary selection instead of the region or killed text.

   What's missing from vanilla Emacs is a key binding to yank the secondary selection. I use C-M-y for that (see library second-sel.el).

2. To get direct access to any kills in the kill ring, use M-y with Browse Kill Ring or with Icicles. In both cases, M-y at top level gives you access to all entries in the kill ring.

   And if you use library second-sel.el then, in addition to the kill ring, you have access to a ring of your past secondary selections.

   And if you use library second-sel.el and Icicles then M-y yanks an entry from the the ring you last yanked from (kill ring or secondary-selection ring).

   And if you use library browse-kill-ring+.el then the kill-ring browser gives you access to an alternative ring also (which, by default, is the ring of secondary selections if you use library second-sel.el).