Feature request: Implement ^ (by default)

[aksr]

Even in old vi, existed '^' cursor motion.

[iamleot]

Hello aksr,

aksr writes:

Even in old vi, existed '^' cursor motion.
In vimb there is '0' (zero) if you prefer to use the '^' you can add in
your config:

[...]
nmap ^ 0
[...]

HTH!
Ciao,
L.

[aksr]

I know, thank you. Still, It should be default.

[fanglingsu]

In my opinion the ^ does not make any sense in vimb. In vi and vim this moves the cursor to the first none blank char on a line, which is very editor related. And there is no direct wa to force webkit to move the cursor onto the right position. OK, may be this could be done by a JavaScript or with some hack in Caret-Mode.
The 0 is more take from pentadactyl than vim, but is a common key to scroll horizontally to the left most position. The ^ isn't a scroll key in vim so I don't see a reason to add this by default.

[aksr]

Inside the browser, in normal mode, key-mappings (like ^, 0, $) refer to page.
Having that in mind, 0 and $ wouldn't also make sense because they (according to legacy software) refer to line. Also, 0 (e.g. in ed, sam) would put cursor (dot) "before the first line" (meaning: before the first character of the first line). This is also the case with vim in ex mode.
I don't see any contradiction here, vi(m)'s cursor motions in browser, in fact, influence the page not the cursor (and they are not actually cursor motions). For me, this is consistent with other vi(m)-like software.
(Pentadactyl uses both ^ and 0 - vim, too. They do the same thing.)

I felt obliged to defend my seeing of things.
Anyway, I don't mean to impose my will, just thought of this as a convenient, natural thing.

[fanglingsu]

I didn't notice that pentadactyl uses also ^ http://5digits.org/help/pentadactyl/buffer.xhtml#^, thank you for the hint. In this case we can add this to vimb too.

[aksr]

Thank you.