How to: move the cursor to the first non-whitespace (non-blank) character on the current line in Vim
- use:
^(shift + 6)
This moves the cursor to the first non-blank character of the current line.
_(underscore)
This also moves the cursor to the first non-blank character on the same line the cursor is on.
By the way, the 0 command moves to the absolute start of the line, including any leading whitespace.