On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Jonathan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Apologies if this is an obvious problem, but the solutions I've been
> looking at don't seem to work.
>
> When I load MacVim (via mvim from the terminal), the following error
> messages appear:
>
>>Error detected while processing /Users/jweed/.vimrc:
>>line    2:
>>E488: Trailing characters: nocompatible^M
>>line    5:
>>E474: Invalid argument: columns=80^M
>>line    6:
>>E474: Invalid argument: wrapmargin=8^M
>>line    7:
>>E492: Not an editor command: ^M
>
> Based on information I've found online, this seems to be a problem
> with line encodings. The only solutions I've found suggest fixing this
> problem by running a substitute command: %s/\r/\r/g. I've tried this
> (from inside MacVim) and it seems to work fine, but when I restart
> mvim the same error occurs and my .vimrc options are not set.
>
> Any suggestions? For reference, my .vimrc appears below, as it appears
> when I open it in macvim.
>
> Thanks, Jonathan
>

You can open that file, enter "set fileformat=mac" and write it again.
This should convert all line-endings to a Mac-friendly format.

Regards,
Max

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