How to enter in Visual block Mode in Vim by command

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My system has Ctrl + V reserved for the use of the clipboard, so I cannot access to Vim's visual mode by using that combination of buttons. Do you know what is the command such as :VisualBlockModeEnable or something similar to toggle this view?

Also I would like to change the binding in my ~/.vimrc

Thanks

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2 Answers
:execute "normal! \<C-v>"

This will enter visual block mode. To remap it use:

:nnoremap X <c-v>
user_52761880

With the information from @Doktor, I do:

:command! Vb :execute "normal! \<C-v>"

Then I do :Vb if I want to enter it.

(I am using Alacritty to run NuShell, and I have set C-v to paste text so I needed a workaround to enter Visual Block mode while keeping this setting.)

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