Re: kill-region without modifying the kill ring

[tomas]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 01:32:14AM -0700, Jim Newton wrote:
> is there a way or an idiom for killing a region without changing the kill 
> ring.
> I often want to cut several different regions by highlighting them, but then 
> insert a particular thing with C-Y.  If I use C-W to kill the region C-Y will 
> yank back the string I just killed rather than the one I want.

delete-region is advertised to do that, but a quick test
in my case seems to do the same as kill. I haven't the time
now to debug that, might just be an idiosyncracy of my
less-than-organized .emacs

> It would be nice to have a version of C-W which does not effect the kill-ring.

Not an answer to your original request, but with M-y you can
replace the just-yanked text with previous kills, so perhaps
you might achieve the effect you're after by first yanking
with C-y, then with M-y (and with consecutive M-y you can
even "walk back" your kill history).

regards
- -- tomás
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux)

iEYEARECAAYFAlYFOtsACgkQBcgs9XrR2kbonwCePdzK5Uc++roPrA9nhgS/k886
QXgAn3wywDXBD0rgcinn7S3VVGmzCU5Y
=Xqp9
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----