Any way to delete in vim without overwriting your last yank? [duplicate]

I love vim, but one common gotcha is:

  • yank a line
  • go to where you would like to paste it
  • delete what’s there
  • paste your yank, only to discover that it pastes what you just deleted

Obviously the workflow is delete first, yank second. But it would be reeeeeaaaaaalllly nice if I didn’t have to. Anyone have a trick for this? Does vim have a paste buffer that works well, or is there a .vimrc setting I can change?

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