Re: Question Regarding Navigating the Buffer

Hi,

Thanks for your reply.  No, it does not work.  Immediately when I hit g 
the cursor position goes to the first line of the buffer.  If I 
subsequently hit ^ nothing much seems to happen.

Dan

On Tue, 23 Nov 2010, Kevin Van Workum wrote:

> Does "g^" do what you want? That should put the cursor on the first non-whitespace char in the buffer.
> 
> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Daniel Patrick Sullivan <[email protected]> wrote:
>       Hi, Everyone,
>
>       I have a quick question with respect to navigating screens buffer. Basically I work with embedded systems and often have to block and copy more than a single screens worth of text to the
>       buffer to attach to tickets or send to customers, etc.  I'd like to be able to copy and paste this text using the screen's native capabilities.
>
>       My problem is that when I enter the buffer and type "g" to go to the top, it actually goes to the top of the buffer, not to the first non-whitespace character in the buffer".  I basically
>       want to copy the entire buffer starting with the first non-whitespace character.  Is there a way to navigate to the first non-whitespace character in the buffer, or am I best just copying
>       the entire buffer and figuring out how to strip out the leading whitespace later?
>
>       Thanks,
>
>       Dan
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