Question

I don’t know if its a retarded problem but it’s a funny dilemma. When I want to delete text that I want to place somewhere else, but that place has other bunch of text that I don’t want, I would delete that text, but in the process I copy a new clipboard so the previously deleted text disappear.

Any suggestions to solve this?

Answer 1

A few possible solutions:

Delete the undesired text first 🙂

or

When deleting the desired text store it in a register other than the default register e.g. to delete the desired text to the end of the current line and store it in register b:

"bd$

Then delete your undesired text.

Then paste the contents of register b:

"bp

or

Delete the undesired text to the black hole register as suggested in the answer linked to by Yarek T using:

"_d