On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 10:23:40AM -0700, David Frey wrote: > > I am running gvim 6.3 under windows 2000. When I open a certain file, I > see ^M at the end of the lines. > > When I do :set fileformat it shows > fileformat=unix > > If I do :set fileformat=dos, the ^M characters are still visible. > > What I want is to be able to edit the file without having to see all the > ^M characters. I don't want to create a noisy diff by modifying every > line in the file, so simply removing the ^M characters is not an option.
If the file is truly a dos file and doesn't have mixed up line-endings :e ++ff=dos should work. Although, if you haven't changed the default value of 'fileformats', it would seem like the file has inconsistent line-endings somewhere. James -- GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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