🚀 go-pugleaf

Your vi seems to be broken. I have tried a number of the suggestions
on various vi's all with success. (Including Xenix 2.2, and DOS). 
However I could not get vi to return to the top of the file, after
including the template file. (ie; exec more than one ex command.)
However a simple shell script may solve your problem.
Something like this might work for you...

# rem if file exists and contains data then just edit it.
if test -s %1
	vi %1
else
# else give it the template and edit it.
	cat template >%1
	vi %1
fi

If you really wanted to be creative you could replace the reference
to vi with a reference to the editor variable, and let the user use
the editor of his/her choice. I am not aware of any problems with
forking to a shell script so this may be your best solution.