:imap mmm <Esc>
vmap '=y :w !pbcopy<CR><CR>
I copied two lines of vim map scripts. The first one has a leading colon while the latter one doesn't have.
So, what's the purpose of the leading colon?
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The colons don’t do anything.
The same commands can be typed into Vim interactively, in which case you need the colon to switch from normal mode to command-line mode.
When executing Vimscript from a file, the colons are not necessary, so it’s usual to omit them, but if they are included the commands will still work.
