copying and pasting in emacs

I've used emacs for almost 15 years, and it's strange, but when I wanted to copy and paste, I've always cut the text first, then pasted it back, then finally pasted it where I wanted it to be.

It's only recently that I noticed that M-w copied the text to the clipboard. Silly, I know.

Here's some commands I use regularly when editing text:

key binding	description	emacs command
C-space	Start selection of region. Everything selected is automatically copied to clipboard.	set-mark-command
C-p, C-M-p	Up one line, one block back, respectively	previous-line, backward-list
C-n, C-M-n	Down one line, one block forward, respectively	next-line, forward-list
C-f, M-f	Forward one letter, forward one word, respectively	forward-char, forward-word
C-b, M-b	Back one letter, back one word, respectively	backward-char, backward-word
C-w	Cut region to clipboard	kill-region
M-w	Copy region to clipboard	kill-ring-save
C-y	Paste most recent text from clipboard	yank
M-y	Cycle through clipboard history (start with one C-y, then follow with multiple M-y)	yank-pop