Document a couple of missing "set" options, mostly borrowing language

from vi.ref, and explain how to set "escapetime" to work-around the problem
described in PR 8277. This should close PR 8277.
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.\" $NetBSD: vi.1,v 1.7 2002/02/08 01:36:37 ross Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: vi.1,v 1.8 2002/05/02 14:20:01 fredb Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1994
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@ -1107,6 +1107,18 @@ command.
only.
Announce error messages with a bell.
.TP
.B "escapetime [1]"
The 10th's of a second
.I ex/vi
waits for a subsequent key to complete an
\*[Lt]escape\*[Gt]
key mapping.
Over a link with high latency,
the default may cause arrow and function keys
to introduce artifacts.
If that's the case,
try increasing this to a value between 3 and 6.
.TP
.B "exrc, ex [off]"
Read the startup files in the local directory.
.TP
@ -1189,6 +1201,12 @@ commands.
.tr Q"
.ds ms noprint [QQ]
.TP
.B "msgcat [./]"
This option selects a message catalog to be used to display error and
informational messages in a specified language.
If the value of this option ends with a '/', it is treated as the name
of a directory that contains a message catalog
.TP
.B "\*(ms"
.tr QQ
Characters that are never handled as printable characters.