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A common function I do in textmate or any other editor is copy some text and then paste it over some other text, for example: https://gyazo.com/fcef05504e83b608b583af085f92ecd2.
Currently to copy a value I do something like yiw, however if I delete the next work, diw, it would also yank in that text, which I want to overwrite. What would be the best way to do this process, which I feel like I do all the time?
The easiest is probably to select the word to be replaced in visual mode instead of deleting it:
viwp
If you don’t like that, an alternative is to delete without clobbering your yanked text by deleting into the black hole register:
"_diwp
Another alternative is to delete normally, but then paste from the yank register, which isn’t overwritten by your delete:
diw"0p
See :help registers for more details on the above.
pin Visual mode solution same as this one does... It's related and some solutions from that one will also work for this one, but I still think this one has a nice specific solution, so worth keeping it open.