I don’t get the question, I feel what you’re looking for is P

well, p just inserts it in the lines above. Basically when you do yy it yanks the line but p and P never insert at cursor, but below or above where the cursor is

do you want to replace the existing stuff with yanked stuff? I don’t get it

I want to insert a yanked line at the cursor without the newline

If you killed a line, you’d yank a line. I suppose you can write advising function that taps into evil-yank-characters or evil-yank-line and modify kill-ring content, but I feel you’re trying to solve a problem which is not a problem :)

I often get that urge to “fix” something, would spend hours trying to write lots of emacs-lisp only at the end to realize that I don’t have the problem to begin with. Emacs is weird, it makes you do weird stuff - just because you can.

I believe that's the reason for evil-textobj-line - ie. using yal instead of yy to begin with

I have a habit of using 0Y quite often

@UCPS050BV yil actually worked nicely

yal copies the whitespace, yil seems to ignore it

I actually never think of l as a text object lol,

I guess you could use i ^R " instead of p?