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> But without viper, DEL doesn't kill, it just deletes.
> 
> How to turn it off?
> 
> Hm.  Oh.  I see that you can't turn it off.  I'll ask the developers.
> Would people be interested in making DEL delete instead of kill?

I'll vote for a non-killing DEL in insert mode -- since undo is
available to recover the deleted char.

-kin