On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 11:40:27PM +0100, Lars Hecking wrote: > I'd also love to teach vim how sto how those pesky ^M characters. It doesn't, > and that's perceived user-friendliness gone too far. Proper vi on Unix > does the right thing. If it thinks it's a DOS format file then it normally puts [dos] on the status line. You can change the autodetection at load time, or change file format at edit time or... http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/File_format -- rgds Stephen