How to access old entries of Vim Clipboard?

Question

When I want to copy a line and paste it in the current line after deleting the current line's contents, I end up pasting the same line that was deleted as the clipboard entry gets changed after pressing d

Answer 1

You can access the previous content of the unnamed register with registers "1 to "9:

"3p

Register "0 always contains the last explicit yank:

"0p

And you can yank to a named register "a to "z. If you want to save a snippet for later, using named registers is a very good idea:

"ey
"ep

See :help registers.