Re: kill-region without modifying the kill ring

[jorge.alfaro-murillo@yale.edu (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.