What is the difference between ^ and _ for cursor movement

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They both seem to move the cursor to the first non-blank character of the current line and I wonder what was the reason for duplicating this functionality

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They both seem to move the cursor to the first non-blank character of the current line and I wonder what was the reason for duplicating this functionality

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Hello and welcome to this site!

:help left-right-motions is your friend here.

The difference is that _ accepts a [count] before it, citing the manual:

_ <underscore> [count] - 1 lines downward, on the first non-blank
 character linewise.

while:

^ To the first non-blank character of the line.
 exclusive motion.

Obviously, _ by itself is equivalent to 1_, so the outcome is 0 lines downward, on the first non-blank character linewise, which means the current line (just like ^).

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Hello and welcome to this site!

:help left-right-motions is your friend here.

The difference is that _ accepts a [count] before it, citing the manual:

_ <underscore> [count] - 1 lines downward, on the first non-blank
 character linewise.

while:

^ To the first non-blank character of the line.
 exclusive motion.

Obviously, _ by itself is equivalent to 1_, so the outcome is 0 lines downward, on the first non-blank character linewise, which means the current line (just like ^).

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Hello and welcome to this site!

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The difference is that _ accepts a [count] before it, citing the manual:

_ <underscore> [count] - 1 lines downward, on the first non-blank
 character linewise.

while:

^ To the first non-blank character of the line.
 exclusive motion.

Obviously, _ by itself is equivalent to 1_, so the outcome is 0 lines downward, on the first non-blank character linewise, which means the current line (just like ^).

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The difference is that _ accepts a [count] before it, citing the manual:

_ <underscore> [count] - 1 lines downward, on the first non-blank
 character linewise.

while:

^ To the first non-blank character of the line.
 exclusive motion.

Obviously, _ by itself is equivalent to 1_, so the outcome is 0 lines downward, on the first non-blank character linewise, which means the current line (just like ^).

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Hello and welcome to this site!

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The difference is that _ accepts a [count] before it, citing the manual:

_ <underscore> [count] - 1 lines downward, on the first non-blank
 character linewise.

while:

^ To the first non-blank character of the line.
 exclusive motion.

Obviously, _ by itself is equivalent to 1_, so the outcome is 0 lines downward, on the first non-blank character linewise, which means the current line (just like ^).

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