Jump to first non-whitespace character in line in emacs
The command is back-to-indentation
, bound by default to M-m.
This is what I picked up from a previous Stack Overflow question:
(defun smart-beginning-of-line ()
"Move point to first non-whitespace character or beginning-of-line.
Move point to the first non-whitespace character on this line.
If point was already at that position, move point to beginning of line."
(interactive)
(let ((oldpos (point)))
(back-to-indentation)
(and (= oldpos (point))
(beginning-of-line))))
(global-set-key [home] 'smart-beginning-of-line)
(global-set-key "\C-a" 'smart-beginning-of-line)