[NBLUG/talk] changeing line breaks.

[E Frank Ball]

On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 07:06:16PM -0700, Ron Wickersham wrote:
} 
} in going the other way, editing a dos file in vi and keeping it in unix,
} you can do :%s/
} //g and get rid of all the extra carriage returns.
} (you get the 
}  above with <cont>V followed by <return>).

What will be visable at the : prompt is this:

:%s/^M//g

Where ^M is <ctrl><Enter>, which is made with
<ctrl>v <ctrl><Enter>


} vim has some automatic scheme that usually does the right thing for you,
} but you can force it with :set fileformat unix or :set fileformat dos
} before you save the file.

vim should also show that it's a dos file at the bottom anytime you edit
one.

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   E Frank Ball                frankb at efball.com