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Let us suppose that a user maps - to <nop>. How can I, as a script writer, execute a :normal command that correctly uses the default behaviour of -?

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You have to put ! after :normal like this:

:normal! -

! will make it ignore mappings. From :help :normal:

If the [!] is given, mappings will not be used. Without it, when this command is called from a non-remappable mapping (:noremap), the argument can be mapped anyway.

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  • Is there a way to ignore a single mapping from normal mode, without needing to go into :normal! ...?
    – Ehtesh Choudhury
    Commented Dec 3, 2020 at 20:00
  • @EhteshChoudhury Nothing I'm aware of. Searching also didn't find anything. I think it's probably better to open a question. It's likely that any answer will be too involved for the comments anyway. Make sure to explain exactly what you want to do. It will help the people answering the question.
    – tokoyami
    Commented Dec 5, 2020 at 11:29

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