Question

In Vim, how is it possible to replace the remaining of a line with the yanked text? If I press “D”, the yanked text will be replaced with the deleted text.

Also, how is it possible to yank to the end of the line? If I press “Y”, it will yank the whole line.

Answer 1

Press v to enter visual mode on the starting character of the selection. Then hit $ to go to the end of the line. After that, hit y to yank the selection.

So:

v$y

Instead of yanking, use p to paste. This will paste over the selection. So after you use D to delete some text, do:

v$p

This will paste the deleted text over the selection.