Vim settings within ncftp edit

I'm using the ncftp utility. It has an edit command which handles the get, edit, put sequence for me as in GUI ftp clients. It's great except for one thing, I get vanilla vim, with none of my settings. Ideally, I'd like to have it configured exactly the same as outside of ncftp (colors, key mappings, pathogen bundles, etc). How can I force vim to load my settings when invoked from within ncftp? NCFTP relies on the following environment variable to find the editor: EDITOR="/usr/bin/vi" ; export EDITOR Can that somehow be tweaked to force load my settings?