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> Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2024 16:35:18 +0100
> From:  Manuel Giraud via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> 
> I'd like to be able to paste a serie of strings from Emacs to an
> external X program (e.g. a form with multiple entry in a web browser).
> 
> I could put all the strings in the Emacs' kill-ring but then a paste in
> the other program will just retrieve the last killed string.  Or maybe,
> Emacs could be informed that the last kill was paste externally and then
> proceed to kill the next item?
> 
> How could I do that?

Did you try using append-next-kill to make all the strings be a single
large kill?