On Sat, 27 Sep 2008, Peter da Silva wrote: > On 2008-09-26, at 09:28, David Mackintosh wrote: > > So logrotate barfs on it every night and it isn't immediately obvious > > as to why, because when you bring it up in vi it looks right, even > > though it isn't. > > That's a reason to hate vim, or whatever obnoxious imitation vi you're > using. If you REALLY brought it up in vi you'd see those ^Ms at the > end of every line, and it *would* be immediately obvious.
Vim, at least with the .vimrc I use, says [dos] or [unix] or [mac] right in the bottom-row status bar, too. I'm not actually sure what option enabled it -- some inscrutable two letter code, apparently -- but it has worked for years now. -- Chris Devers
