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Asked: 2026-06-13T23:03:23+00:00

I want to remap another key combo, say CTRL – G , to function

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I want to remap another key combo, say CTRL–G, to function as CTRL–D does (note: not the same as S–Down/PageDown/CTRL–F).

What I have so far is:

nmap ^G :exe 'normal '.&scroll.'^E<CR>'

Bringing up my vim command mode and typing this in, it works perfectly. However, when I save my .vimrc and reload vim, I get the following error when pushing CTRL–G:

E114: Missing quote: '
E15: Invalid expression: 'normal '.&scroll.'

It seems to be stuck at not evaluating the ^E appropriately. However, I have been entirely unsuccessful in using or any other way of specifying CTRL–E. What am I missing here?

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  1. Editorial Team

    ^G and ^E are special characters, and do not work well when you put them in the .vimrc. You need to use <C-g> and <C-e>, but since your Ctrl+E is placed inside a string, you need to escape it and write \<C-e>. You also need to use double quotes instead of single quotes – otherwise you can’t do the escaping.

    In other note – you should probably use nnoremap instead of nmap, so that if you remap <C-e> somewhere else, <C-g> will still behave like the original <C-e>.

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