Les Mikesell wrote:
On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 11:23, Bowie Bailey wrote:
In the old days with real vi, you would: :%s/^v^m// to get rid of them, but vim doesn't like that.
It depends on how Vim recognizes the file. If Vim displays the file as a DOS file, it will hide the ^M and you can't search for it. If Vim displays the file as a unix file, it will show the ^M at the end of the line and you can search and replace it with the command shown above.
OK, but what would convince vim to display files with ^M's as unix files? I thought it took their presence as the hint to display in DOS mode.
A screwed-up text file that doesn't have the ^M's on every line will display this way in Vim. This tends to happen when you transfer a DOS file to unix and then edit it with a program that does not do the conversion for you. The resultant file has ^M at the end of every line except ones you added with the unix editor.