Thanks everyone for your replies.

On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 7:04 PM, John Beckett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Mike Hoy wrote:
>> In my .vimrc file I have:
>> set ff=dos
>> and it doesn't format my files for dos.
>
> The following tip is a bit of a mess, but there is some useful info that might
> assist:
> http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Change_end-of-line_format_for_dos-mac-unix
>
> I think the problem is that Vim tries to retain the fileformat (line ending) 
> that it
> finds when reading the file. The command 'set ff=dos' is talking about the 
> current
> buffer, not files that you open in the future.
>
> An autocmd that sets ff for all files in a certain directory might suit, or 
> you
> could have a script that you run to prepare files before sending.
>
> John
>
>
> >
>



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