[CentOS] to <cr> or not
Bowie Bailey
Bowie_Bailey at BUC.comWed Mar 1 19:54:34 UTC 2006
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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. -- Bowie
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