On 2010-10-12, rudy b wrote:
> On Oct 12, 11:45 am, Gary Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 2010-10-12, Marc Weber wrote:
> >
> > > Excerpts from rudy b's message of Tue Oct 12 20:12:27 +0200 2010:
> > > > Does any one know why I see such a behavior? and what is the way
> > > > around it? How can I just have gvim shows the carriage returns, if it
> > > > is in fact there?
> >
> > > :h nocomp. If either .vimrc or .gvimrc exists vim defaults are used
> > > instead of vi defaults.
> >
> > > Try :echo &fileformat. When the ^M signs are missing that's because Vim
> > > recognized its a dos file now.
> >
> > Also see
> >
> > :help fileformats
> >
> > Note the ending 's'.
> Thank you all,
>
> now I understand what is going on. But is there a way to force the
> fileformats to default to unix (even for a dos format file)?
You can execute
:set ffs=unix
some time before opening a file, such as by putting that setting in
your ~/.vimrc.
Regards,
Gary
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