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I have the following bit of text in a vim file with cursor where the asterisk is while in insert mode:

\begin{document}
[latex]
Some text*
[\latex]
\end{document}

\begin{document}
[latex]
[\latex]
\end{document}

I want to hit ctrl-A to search for the next instance of [latex and insert a new line after that with this:

inoremap ^A <esc>execute "normal! /^[latex\<cr>o"

However, what happens instead is the first instance of [\latex] gets changed to [latex] with the cursor over the x. What has me baffled is that this works fine when I type in the keystrokes manually.

How do I get vim to do it what I want?

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Reset to default
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Solved with this:

inoremap <silent> <C-A> <esc>/[latex<cr>o

I guess execute doesn't work when mapping keys.

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    execute didn't work as expected in your original mapping because after pressing Esc, you are in normal mode. But for :execute to work properly you need to be in command-line mode, i.e. press a colon :. This would have worked too: inoremap <c-a> <esc>:execute "normal! /^[latex\<lt>cr>o"<cr>, but your new mapping is much simpler.
    – user938271
    Aug 25, 2018 at 0:29

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