Randy, You should upgrade to v 4.6.0. This problem is fixed there - mc shows ^M exactly as vi does, so you will never accidentally embed them into your text. I know this because I submitted fix for this problem ;-)
Alex ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 10:19 AM Subject: mc and mcedit problem - ^M > > > > > I am using Midnight Commander under SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 for IBM > zSeries. I'm an old mainframer building Linux skills who likes your > product because it makes a lot of things a lot easier and I like the editor > because I don't have to use vi (thank God). I have encountered a small > problem with your editor that is driving me nuts. > > I am editing some shell scripts. At some point when I edit them, I'm > getting some sort of special character or something inserted at the end of > each line by your editor. You cannot see these at all when viewing the > file in your editor but they're there, and if you use the vi editor to look > at the file, they show up as a ^M at the end of each line. I can start > with a file that does not have these, and at some point which I haven't > nailed down yet, they get put there while using mcedit. These are > apparently causing the shell script not to run correctly. What are these, > and why are they being put there? Can I stop this? Is it a bug? Thanks > in advance for your reply. Here is the information from mc --version... > > GNU Midnight Commander 4.5.55 > Edition: text mode > Virtual File System: tarfs, extfs, ftpfs, mcfs, undelfs > With builtin Editor > Using S-Lang library with terminfo database > With subshell support as default > With support for background operations > With mouse support on xterm and Linux console > Using default locale > > Randy Wright > zSeries Integration Engineer > MSI Systems Integrators > 8000 Maryland Avenue, Suite 410 > St. Louis, Mo. 63105 > Office (314) 726-3635 > Pager (314) 491-5026 > Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > Mc mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc > _______________________________________________ Mc mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
