How to delete (not cut) in Vim?

Question

How can I delete a line without putting it into my default buffer?

Example:

line that will be copied.

line that I want to be substitued with the previou         


        

Answer 1

That's one of the things I disliked about vim... I ended up mapping dd to the black hole register in my .vimrc and life has been good since:

nnoremap d "_d
vnoremap d "_d