Christian Brabandt wrote: > Hi Gary! > > On So, 22 Jan 2017, Gary Johnson wrote: > > > Some of the log files I collect contain both CR and CR-LF line > > endings. Normally on a Linux system, Vim opens those files as > > 'fileformat' "unix", which puts ^M at the end of lines ending with > > CR-LF. I would like to hide those ^M by forcing 'fileformat' to > > "dos" for those files. I think the following should work, but it > > doesn't. > > > > au BufReadPre mary* set ffs=dos ff=dos > > > > (I'm using a test file named mary.txt which contains a mixture of CR > > and CR-LF line endings.) > > > > Instead, whether I start vim with the file name on the command line, > > e.g., "vim mary.txt", or start vim with no argument and open the > > file later with ":e mary.txt", the results are the same: > > 'fileformat' is "unix" and ^M appear at the end of the CR-LF lines. > > > > It can be seen from this command, > > > > :verbose set ffs? ff? > > fileformats=dos > > Last set from ~/.vimrc > > fileformat=unix > > > > that the autocommand is being triggered, but that Vim is setting > > 'fileformat' to "unix" internally. If Vim is setting 'fileformat' > > _before_ the autocommand is triggered, it is ignoring the 'ff' in > > the autocommand. If Vim is setting 'fileformat' _after_ the > > autocommand is triggered, it is ignoring the 'ffs' in the > > autocommand. Is this a bug or my lack of understanding? > > > > I'm running version 8.0.187 on Linux. I used a ~/.vimrc containing > > only that autocommand and I moved aside my ~/.vim directory. I even > > ran vim as "vim -N --noplugin", all with the same results. > > Yeah, readfile() does not expect autocommands to change those values. > > Attached is a patch that fixes it.
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