Copy and paste from external source

Question

I use vim (Actually gvim on windows) as my main text editor. In my work flow I have to copy sentences to/from various external sources, therefore I use clipboard=unnamed to

Answer 1

Try this:

:vmap p "_xP

• vmap means to make a mapping that only applies in visual mode.
• p is the key to create the mapping for.
• "_ is the black hole register. This is used in any situation where you want to delete text without affecting any registers.
• xP means delete the selected text, then paste before the resulting cursor position.