How to save a Vim macro that contains “Escape” key presses?

Question

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

I^[A

So I saved it into my .vimrc

Answer 1

I'm answering what I do to add Escape in macro.

Using in vim editor

:let @a='iabcjj'

here I map to jj by

.vimrc file

imap jj