Re: imap: triggered by completely different key sequence

> I hope someone has an answer to your mystery

See
:help :map-alt-keys
in particular, "Vim assumes that pressing the ALT key sets the 8th bit
of a typed character".

An "i" with the eighth bit set is hex e9, é in unicode, and latin1,
latin2, and so on to latin10.

As to why, I can only imagine something historical, from a 7-bit
ASCII past. Looks a kludge to me, but I'm not an adept in this stuff.

Regards, John

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