Re: kill-region without modifying the kill ring

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Barry Margolin writes:

> Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo writes: 
>
> > Jim Newton writes:  
> >   
> > > 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.    It would be nice to have a version of C-W 
> > > which does not effect  the kill-ring.  
> >   
> > Doesn't selecting the text and using <backspace> do exactly 
> > that?  
>
> I just tried it, and C-y recovered the deleted text. So it does 
> put it  on the kill-ring.

No, I think you are wrong. delete-backward-char (bound to 
<backspace>) doesn't put the text in the kill ring. At least not 
by default, try it with emacs -Q

--
Jorge.