Re: Selection not to be copied into kill-ring

[weber]

On 12 jul, 09:14, Will <schimpan...@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to copy text from external applications (e.g. web browser) to
> an Emacs buffer. Often before I paste the text into an Emacs buffer I'd
> like to delete text in the this buffer _without_ it being copied to the
> kill-ring, because then the text from the external application gets lost.
>
> => How do I switch off that hightlighted text is copied automatially
> into the kill-ring?
> => How do I delete a region without it getting copied into the
> kill-ring, e.g. by highlighting the text and pressing <delete>?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Will
>
> PS: I am working with
> GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2007-06-02 on RELEASE
> with MS Windows XP.

There is another command, delete-region, that doesn't copy to the kill
ring.
You could bind it to delete like this:

(define-key global-map (kbd "<delete>")    'delete-region)

HTH,
weber