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
