opening vim with a flag: ready to write?

[Gary Kline]

On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 11:12:45PM +0700, Victor Sudakov wrote:
> Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 23:12:45 +0700
> From: Victor Sudakov <vas at mpeks.tomsk.su>
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: opening vim with a flag: ready to write?
> 
> 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
> 
> -- 
> Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
> sip:sudakov at sibptus.tomsk.ru
     
	 this works for gvim too, although gvim takes awhile to fork.  
	 I'll try kate in vi-mode.

	 thanks much.

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