Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Re: starting position of cursor

> when I start vim on an existing text module I kind of expect it to
> have the cursor in the 1st column of the first line, but some
> setting is causing it to start with the cursor on the first
> non-blank column of the first line

Strange. Normally I'd expect that setting 'sol'/'nosol' would impact
this behavior. However, based on my testing, it doesn't seem to.

> any help getting it to start with the cursor in column 1 line 1
> will be appreciated

Well, a workaround that feels a little dirty to me:

augroup StartOfLine
autocmd StartOfLine BufRead * normal 0
augroup END

It seems to do what you want.

-tim




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