created by

andrew lyon

script type

utility

description

This plugin will give you a command called :SmartHomeKey. You can bind this to any key, but I like to use <Home>. When you are in your code, and you call :SmartHomeKey, if the cursor is anywhere but ^ (the first non-blank character on the line), it will go to ^. If you are on ^ and you call :SmartHomeKey again, the cursor will be placed at 0 (first character on line, blank or non-blank). If you hold <Home>, it will just toggle between ^ and 0. This emulates the behavior of the home key in Eclipse, which is what I used before switching to Vim. This script is really simple, but I'm new to Vim scripting so let me know if you have problems (or if I did something stupid).

install details

Create ~/.vim/plugin/ (~\vimfiles\plugin\ on Win) if it doesn't exist. Drop in smarthomekey.vim. This will give you the command :SmartHomeKey which you can bind in your .vimrc: map <silent> <Home> :SmartHomeKey <CR> imap <silent> <Home> <C-O>:SmartHomeKey<CR>

Click on the package to download.

package	script version	date	Vim version	user	release notes
smarthomekey.vim	0.2	2010-11-22	7.0	andrew lyon	Fixed bug where the line number was being set incorrectly sometimes.
smarthomekey.vim	0.1	2010-11-22	7.0	andrew lyon	Initial upload

ip used for rating: 142.132.191.50