Kent Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sunday 25 January 2004 01:43 am, marlon corleone wrote: >> how do i get rid of this annoying character ^M using vi, in pico i >> used the arguments '-w' >> but what about in vi? > > >starting on the 1st line type >:.,$s/<ctrl>v<ctrl>m// > >The .,$ tells it to process from the current line to the last one.
If you're doing this for the whole file it's faster to use % :%s/<ctrl>v<ctrl>m// It's even faster to use :se ff=unix but that assumes we're talking about Vim, not Vi. -- Cheers, Bernard _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
