Re: kill-region without modifying the kill ring

[Jim Newton]

> Doesn't selecting the text and using <backspace> do exactly that? 
> By the way, as Tomás suggested, I think that you are better off 
> always killing the region and then using M-y. You never know if 
> you will actually change your mind and use the text you deleted. 
> For an improved version of M-y, try:
>  
> https://github.com/browse-kill-ring/browse-kill-ring


The problem, as I described above is that every time I press C-w, then to get 
back the text I want to yank, I must press M-y N+1 times.

Here is the sequence.  I copy the region I want to insert with M-w,  then I 
start reading through the text in the buffer, every time I encounter a string I 
want to replace with C-y, I have to first delete what's there.  So I select the 
first using M-space a few times, and press C-w C-y M-y, then continue to the 
text I want to remove and replace (maybe the same string again, or maybe one 
slightly different), and press M-space (a few times), then C-w C-y M-y M-y,
next time I have to press C-w C-y M-y M-y M-y
The 20th time I need to press
C-w C-y M-y M-y M-y M-y M-y M-y M-y M-y M-y M-y M-y M-y M-y M-y M-y M-y M-y M-y 
M-y M-y

That's why the M-y suggestion does not work.

But the suggestion to use [delete] instead of C-w is a good one.  I didn't know 
I could delete a region with the delete key, i've used C-w since 1988. 

So to answer the original question:
  Q:  how can I delete a region without effecting the kill-ring
  A: delete-forward-char which is bound by default to [delete] (making sure 
transient mark mode is active)