How to copy a word and paste it over another word in Vim?

Question

I know how to copy a word, but I seem to overwrite what is in my clipboard because, when I try to copy over a word, it does not seem to be working.

To copy a word, I can use

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How to copy over a word?

Answer 1

Perhaps you just want to do this:

viwp

which will visually select a new word, and paste over it.

Now, if you don't want to lose your register when doing this, you can also put in your vimrc:

xnoremap p pgvy