Question

Here is the text I’m working on:

line1: website = “a.com”;
…
line3: website = “b.com”;
…
line5: website = “c.com”;

Suppose I want to change all website to “stackoverflow.com”, I can do:
– change “a.com” to “stackoverflow.com”
– yank the whole line (Y)
– go to line3, hit p, k, dd to paste from buffer and delete the old “b.com” line.

Now the problem is that since dd puts the “b.com” into the buffer, to replace line5 I’ll have to yank the whole line again.
Is there any simple way so that I can replace line3 and line5 with the already yanked line quickly?

UPDATE:
Thanks for the answers, now there are several ways doing it: delete to black hole, yank from named buffer, etc. I found this being my favorite method ( I use key R instead r as sometime I need to replace a single character):

In Vim is there a way to delete without putting text in the register?

I put some links to similar SO questions below:

How to Delete (desired text), delete (undesired text), and paste (desired text) in Vim
In Vim is there a way to delete without putting text in the register?

Answer 1

Rereading this question I think this is closer to what you’re after:

In Vim is there a way to delete without putting text in the register?

E.g. instead of using dd use "_dd