opening vim with a flag: ready to write?

[Victor Sudakov]

Gary Kline wrote:
> > > is the a way of starting off vim or gvim and be able to type into
> > > the editor _without_ first typing:
> > >
> > >     a,i,o,O,I,A, or any other character?

I use all the time:
$ echo $SVN_EDITOR 
vim -c startinsert

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Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
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