>> >  What did you expect to happen?
>> That ':' would continue to have its default meaning of beginning an
>> extended (ex) command....
>	huh?  it works fine for me.:
>stty werase :
>vi /tmp/foo
>ibar baz<ESC>:wq
>	and I'm back at the command prompt.

sure...that works fine.  but try this:

  vi /tmp/foo
  ibar baz:<ESC>:wq

and tell us what the foo file contains.  i think it contains "bar \n".

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