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[lesmikesell at gmail.com (Les Mikesell)]

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.

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