How to Delete (desired text), delete (undesired text), and paste (desired text) in Vim

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?

Accepted Answer

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
```

How to Delete (desired text), delete (undesired text), and paste (desired text) in Vim

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