How do I launch an editor from a shell script?

Question

I would like my tcsh script to launch an editor (e.g., vi, emacs):

#!/bin/tcsh
vi my_file

This starts up vi with my_file but first displays a w

Answer 1

I was able to get the desired behavior under bash+Cygwin+Terminator:

#!/bin/bash
vim foo

Run the script, vim loads, no error messages, behaves as normal. There are undoubtedly dozens of variations between our setups, however, so I can't hazard a guess as to what makes the difference. I'm curious what it is, but you got it working, which is the important part.