Re: kill-region without modifying the kill ring

[B. T. Raven]

On 9/25/2015 7:49 AM, Jim Newton wrote:
> > 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
>
> After a quick test, it seems delete-region does what I want.  It doesn't seem 
> to have a standard bind key.

It would slow things down to have one, and waste a keychord. In order to 
invoke delete-region you first need to define a region. Once that's 
done, either the delete or backspace key will delete it. With a split 
space keyboard the backspace key (left of split) is more accessible than 
any key combo whatever.

Ed