I use the following Vim macro a lot (it puts the current line inside XML tags):

I<e>^[A</e>

So I saved it into my .vimrc 

let @e='I<e>^[A</e>'

But it does not work.
The ^[ part means "Escape" but it is not understood as such in .vimrc

How can I save this macro, or any macro that contains "Escape" ?

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