Don't put character in yank buffer when pressing 'Del'

Question

Deleting a character in normal mode with Del places it the yank buffer. How can I change this behavior to keep the buffer unchanged? For example, yank it to the black hole buffer as one can when using the d command?

Answer 1

You can change the yank buffer with "<character>. The "black hole" buffer is _, so the command you want would be "_d etc. Note that this is per-deletion (yank, etc.).

You can create a simple shortcut in your .vimrc that does this with the Del by default.

nnoremap <Del> "_x