On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Toby Bradshaw wrote:
>
> Hi..
>
> It's long annoyed me that cut and yank write to the same clipboard. It's
> often that I'll yank something and then delete a few individual
> characters near where I'm going to paste only to find the deleted
> characters have obliterated what I yanked.
>
> Is there a way to to have only yank and delete copy to the default
> register/clipboard and single character cuts go somewhere else
> (/dev/null for all I care) ?
>
> Thanks in advance.

:nnoremap x "_x
:nnoremap X "_X
:nnoremap <Del> "_<Del>

And then three matching vnoremap's for visual mode x/X/<Del>

See  :help registers  for what this is doing.

~Matt

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