Emacs: How to yank the last yanked text regardless of subsequent kills?

Question

I often find myself repeatedly yanking something after doing some kills and it becomes a process like:

1. C-y
2. C-y M-y
3. C-y M-y M-y
4. C-y M-y M

Answer 1

I use

M-x browse-kill-ring

with keybinding 'M-y'. There is also helm support.

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/BrowseKillRing

offers more solutions.

Answer 2

You could use M-x delete-region instead to kill the text, possibly binding it to a key if you want to use it a lot.