startinsert, didn’t even know that existed, tbh. 😅It doesn’t work because the editor command is currently not run through
sh -c ..., i.e. it is supposed to be just a path like /usr/bin/vim. I was just stumped by this myself and I think I’ll soon push a patch to allow setting something like vim -c foo.In the meantime, your best option is probably putting this in your
.vimrc:au BufRead,BufNewFile jenny-posting.eml normal $
(I use something similar to disable hard text wrapping after 72 chars for twtxt postings.)