Startinsert on GoyoEnter

[mbryne]

Greetings,

Thanks for your hard work, I am wondering if you can help me with a basic issue I am having.

I am aiming to automatically jump into writing when VIM launches, when I call startinsert (see below) my cursor appears in the top left corner and when trying to move or insert I get the error 'E21: Cannot make changes, 'modifiable' is off'.

I am presuming (based on my limited knowledge) that startinsert is effecting the first buffer, how would I go about jumping straight into edit mode after Goyo launches?

`autocmd Filetype text call LaunchJournal() autocmd! User GoyoEnter nested call goyo_enter()

function LaunchJournal() Goyo endfunction

function! s:goyo_enter() norm! G$ startinsert " < ends up in first buffer I am presuming endfunction`

[dylanaraps]

Have you tried using feedkeys instead of startinsert? Try adding this line instead:

call feedkeys("i")

Feedkeys simulates key presses, you can check :h feedkeys() for more info.

[junegunn]

Not sure why startinsert doesn't work as expected, maybe it could be a bug of vim, but I can confirm that @dylanaraps's suggestion solves the issue.

[mbryne]

The feedkeys call worked! I was using norm G$i but it wasn't playing ball either.

Thanks for that fix and thanks for the excellent plugin.

[TonyBarganski]

Upon running a ':PlugUpdate' and ':PlugInstall' I get this same error. I only have ':startinsert' defined for mutt temp files like so: ~/.vimrc:

autocmd BufRead ~/tmp/mutt-* execute ":startinsert" 

Even commenting it out I get the same error when trying to write to ANY file type. This wasn't happening before so I suspect an update to Goyo.vim because of when I look to see what is setting the 'unmodifiable' flag, it is 'goyo.vim':

Vim Command:

:verbose set modifiable?

Output:

nomodifiable                                                                                                                                   
        Last set from ~/.vim/plugged/goyo.vim/autoload/goyo.vim line 82  

The goyo.vim section containing line 82 reads:

  " To hide scrollbars of pad windows in GVim
  let diff = winheight(0) - line('$') - (has('gui_running') ? 2 : 0)
  if diff > 0
#    setlocal modifiable
    call append(0, map(range(1, diff), '""'))
    normal! gg
    setlocal nomodifiable  <<== line 82
  endif
  execute winnr('#') . 'wincmd w'
endfunction

My only recourse at the moment and to make vim usable again; is to comment out my Goyo plugin entirely from my vimrc file. This makes the problem go away but Goyo unusable.

Any ideas what's gone wrong here?

[TonyBarganski]

Workaround

vi ~/.vim/plugged/goyo.vim/autoload/goyo.vim +82

Changed line 82 from:

    setlocal nomodifiable

To:

    setlocal modifiable

Everything seems back to normal and working now for my Markdown files.