How to stop Emacs from “contaminating” the clipboard?
Emacs always copies killed/deleted content to the clipboard. I often need to copy and paste content into Emacs but when I delete existing content from Emacs before pasting, the content I would like to paste is lost. The only solution I found is to use (setq save-interprogram-paste-before-kill t) in order to make sure content copied outside of Emacs stays available in the kill-ring, and people with similar problems seem to be satisfied with this solution. What bothers me about it is that I have to type C-y followed by one or more repetitions of M-y to get to the content I want to paste. So my