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As title. I want to create a function that facilitate this behaviour. I have tried this but it didn't work:

exe 'gv'

I tried from this direction because this works:

exe 'c!'
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  • @mattb: Yes, exactly. Title updated. Commented Jan 9, 2022 at 9:14

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To run normal mode commands as ex command use :normal! as in

   normal! gv

Note, exclamation mark is for running non-mapped "built-in" functionality:

:nnoremap l :echo "hello"<CR>
" this would echo hello
:normal l
" this would move cursor right
:normal! l

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