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

For your second question, alternatively to DeleteSelectionMode you can enable CUA Mode which additionally gives you a nice rectangle selection mode enabled by C-Return. CUA mode is part of emacs since 22.1.