What is the difference between ^ and _ for cursor movement
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What is the difference between ^ and _ for cursor movement
They both seem to move the cursor to the first non-blank character of the current line and I wonder what was the reason for duplicating this functionality
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The difference is that _ accepts a [count] before it, citing the manual:
_
[count]
_ <underscore> [count] - 1 lines downward, on the first non-blank
character linewise.
while:
^ To the first non-blank character of the line.
exclusive motion.
Obviously, _ by itself is equivalent to 1_, so the outcome is 0 lines downward, on the first non-blank character linewise, which means the current line (just like ^).
_
1_
^
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