Pressing “Home” in Vim on an Indented Line

Question

I have a bad habit of using the \'home\' key to go back to the beginning of a line. As I recently started using vim I noticed that when I press the home key on a lined that is i

Answer 1

Here’s what I have in my .vimrc. This maps Home to move to the beginning of the text if you are anywhere in the line, and column 0 if you are at the beginning of the text.

function ExtendedHome()
    let column = col('.')
    normal! ^
    if column == col('.')
        normal! 0
    endif
endfunction
noremap   :call ExtendedHome()
inoremap   :call ExtendedHome()

Note: I am using a keyboard layout that maps Home to Alt Gr+A, that why I’m using this. If you have to leave the letter field of your keyboard to reach Home, you should probably go to normal mode instead.