Timothy Legant wrote:
> You might not always want to move down 6 lines. Perhaps in the future
> you will add a new header (using my_hdr) to certain messages. You might
> want to consider the following instead:
> 
> set editor="vim -c ':0;/^$'"
> 
> which will search for and move to the first blank line. In an email
> message that should be the first line after all the headers, no matter
> how many header lines there are.

That's great, Tim!  It sure beats what I had been using
before.  However, I like to edit my replies after quoted
messages, so I think '-c ":$;?^$"' is a better command line
argument for me, since it places the cursor on the last blank
line, i.e. after any quoted text but before my signature.

        -- Mr. Wade

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