In Vim normal mode, the 0 command takes you to the first column on the line and ^ takes you to the logical start of line (e.g. the first non-whitespace character). In the regex world, ^ matches the first character on the line, whitespace or not. Does Vim have a pattern that behaves like its '^' command–matching the logical beginning of a line?
Pattern like ^ in vim
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Best Answer
There's no shortcut to match the first non-whitespace character on a line, you have to build the pattern yourself, like:
If you don't want to include the whitespace in your match, you have to use a zero-width assertion, like:
Not exactly pretty, but at least it gets the job done.