@movq@www.uninformativ.de, maybe you can help me with this. I want to place the vim cursor at the end of the first line on replies, and forks. I have tried adding to this to jenny’s configuration:
"editor": "vim \"+normal $\"",
But that doesn’t work. How would you go about it?
Today, I learned about vim "+normal $", how cool! :-) Thanks @quark@ferengi.one!
@quark@ferengi.one Uhm, yeah, that can’t be set in the config file (only by overriding the VISUAL environment variable). It probably should. I’ll fix it.
What’s the goal, though? I usually hit Shift-A in Vim to append text to the end of the line. Is that what you want? 😅
@movq@www.uninformativ.de hmm, I guess I could do that too. I have startinsert set on my .vimrc, so I will either have to take it out, or exit insert, $, then insert again. I think the way you do it would be the way to go.
I tried setting VISUAL to be something like vim -c 'star!', which does the same thing, but no dice. :-/
@quark@ferengi.one Ah, 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.)
@movq@www.uninformativ.de hmm, I am already using au BufNewFile,BufRead jenny-posting.eml setl completefunc=jenny#CompleteMentions fo-=t wrap, from jenny. How would I go to incorporate that there?
@quark@ferengi.one I think just putting it there as a second line should work. 😅
@movq@www.uninformativ.de woot! Yes! Perfect now. Hitting reply opens it with insert, and prompt at the end of the first line. Just as I wanted it. Thank you much!
@quark@ferengi.one @movq@www.uninformativ.de A general workaround in these cases is to wrap the command in a shell script and reference said script instead.