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David Kastrup wrote:

>I don't understand why it is worth doing in the first place.  Why not
>just let those characters self-insert?  They don't have any other
>meaning in vi.  What use is it to have them beep?
>
It is a bit like to have some control keys self-inserting in Emacs.