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

Taken from the EmacsWiki:

The equivalent of ‘kill-line’ (‘C-k’) but without kill-ring side effects:

(delete-region (point) (line-end-position))