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From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
To: current@freebsd.org, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au
Subject: Re:  vi unusable?
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Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 23:17:26 PST
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Try "set escapetime=10".  That should make vi wait a full second for the
rest of the characters.  The default is 1 (= 1/10 second), which should
be good enough for the console, so perhaps its timing is broken.

  Bill