snapcol.nvim

A Neovim plugin that snaps the cursor to column 0 when moving vertically, except for the last line that had horizontal movement.

Designed to be:

• buffer-local
• Kickstart.nvim–friendly
• Lazy.nvim–ready

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How it works

• j / k / gg / G always move to absolute column 0
• Explicit horizontal movement (h, l, w, $, etc.) updates internal cursor column memory for that line. Only the last line with horizontal movement is stored at a time.
• Toggle per buffer with :SnapColToggle

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Motivation

When reading or scanning code top-to-bottom, I find it more useful for vertical movement to:

• align to the start of the line
• avoid inheriting arbitrary cursor columns
• behave consistently across lines visually

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Installation (Lazy.nvim)

{
  'flayshon/snapcol.nvim',
  opts = {
    filetypes = nil -- auto enables for every filetype
  },
}

Usage

Default behavior

• auto-enables for all normal, local buffers
• Special buffers (help, prompt, etc.) are ignored
• You can toggle it per buffer at any time with :SnapColToggle

Restrict SnapCol to specific filetypes

If you only want it for certain languages:

opts = {
  filetypes = { 'go', 'lua', 'python', 'rust', 'typescript' },
}

With this configuration, other buffers behave normally unless toggled manually.