How to remove the top entry (pop) from the emacs kill-ring?

Question

I need to replace the top killed string to another one. I can (yank) it and then (kill-region ...), but after that, there will be two strings: the old one, and my new. How to remove the old entry completely from the kill-ring?

Accepted Answer

It can be as simple as

```
(pop kill-ring)
```

How to remove the top entry (pop) from the emacs kill-ring?

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