Emacs: how to delete text without kill ring?

Question

I\'d like to just delete some text so I can yank some other text instead of it. How can I do that? C-w cuts the selected text to kill ring and I end up with

Answer 1

I have had the same issue. The closest thing I've got so far is to just make a small function that's essentially:

(defun ruthlessly-kill-line ()
  "Deletes a line, but does not put it in the kill-ring. (kinda)"
  (interactive)
  (move-beginning-of-line 1)
  (kill-line 1)
  (setq kill-ring (cdr kill-ring)))