I prefer to start two lines into the first big chunk of empty text (either in the main body on a new email, or after all the quoted lines on a reply), so I changed the if str == '' let cur = cur + 1 " If the first line of the body is an attribution, put " the cursor _after_ that line, otherwise the cursor is " leaved right after the headers (assuming we're writing " a new mail, and not editing a reply). " NOTE: modify the regexp to match your mail client's attribution! if strlen(matchstr(getline(cur), '^On.*wrote:.*')) > 0 let cur = cur + 1 endif execute cur :start break endif to