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Start Of Line With Underscore

You probably already new that you can use the ^ key to jump to the first non-blank character of a line. You probably also think that ^ is a little hard to type. Did you know that there’s a more ergonomic alternative?

The _ key in normal mode does almost the same thing. If you’re in normal mode, hitting ^ is the exact same as hitting ^. I personally find it a lot easier to reach for _, though, because I’m so much more used to typing it.

_ is slightly different in other contexts though.