On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 12:39:45PM -0400, Dan Fabrizio wrote:
> Does anyone know why vim don't show the ^M characters in a file but vi does?
Vim understands all EOL types. All types included in
'fileformats' are equal, whatever characters they are
physically represented with.
> :set list
>
> in vim shows $ at the end of the lines but no ^M characters?
$ marks ends of lines, it does not stand for any particular
character. If lines are ended with CRLF, CR (^M) is simply
a part of end of line, it is not included in the text.
> :set ff=unix
> :w
>
> This removed the ^M characters but I had to use vi to verify.
You can display the current EOL style ('fileformat') any
time:
:set ff
> Is there some setting I'm missing that needed to show the ^M characters in
> vim?
If you do not want to accept CRLF as end of line, do not
include `dos' in 'fileformats'. Then only the LF part
becomes end of line, CR will be included in the text. You
will see ^M displayed as you wish, however, semantically it
is not the same.
Yeti
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