Re: Selection not to be copied into kill-ring

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Will <schimpanski@gmx.de>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:14:01 +0200
> 
> 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>?

Try "M-x delete-selection-mode RET".  Is this what you want?