[CentOS] Vim and text file line ending handling

[Warren Young]

On 7/8/2011 4:40 PM, Lars Hecking wrote:
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>   I'd also love to teach vim how sto how those pesky ^M characters.

It does, when the line ending style is mixed.

When the line ending style is consistent, you can make Vim show the file 
type in the status line by adding something like this to your .vimrc:

set laststatus=2
set statusline=%F\ %m%r%h%w%y\ [%{&ff}]\ [%l,%v]\ [%p%% of %L lines]

The important bit is the %{&ff}: that will be "dos", "mac" or "unix". 
The brackets around it are decorations only.  Adjust to taste.