On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Ben Schmidt wrote: > >> You may also force-read with one specific type of line endings, but it >> will only work if 'fileformats' (plural) is empty: see ":help ++opt". > > Upon what do you base the statement that it will only work if ffs is > empty, Tony? I can't find any reference to such a restriction, nor have > I experienced problems without emptying it, and a quick test shows that > if I have ffs=unix then doing ++ff=dos does work as I expect it to for > reading DOS files.
Tony's right; try it with a broken DOS-format file - line 1 ends \r\n, line 2 \n. echo -n "a\r\nb\n" >tmp/testfile However, I also can't find any reference to this behavior in the help, and it definitely strikes me as a bug - I can't see why you'd ever want autodetection to override a manual decision from the user. One more question for Bram when he gets back, I guess. ~Matt --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
