[CentOS] to <cr> or not

[Paul Heinlein]

On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, 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.

If you get the dreaded '[dos]' indicator in vim, just do

:set fileformat=unix

For fun, try

:set fileformat=mac

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