On Oct 12, 1:12 pm, rudy b <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am having an issue with the ".vimrc" file.
> There is a dos format file that I am opening with gvim, on a unix
> platform. And as expected, when I open the file, I see carriage return
> (^M) character at the end of each line.
> Then I can clean up the file easily.
>
> The problem comes about when I create an ".vimrc" file.
> I noticed it is not about the content of the ".vimrc" file, but it is
> more about the actual existance of this file. In other words, when I
> just do "touch .vimrc" so that I create an empty ".vimrc" file, with
> absolutely nothing in the file, then when I open the same file, I
> don't see that carriage return characters anymore. But instead what I
> see is that on the bottum of the file, where it spells out the name of
> the file, it adds the word [dos] !!!
>
> 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?
>

You've received several partial answers.

See here for a much more detailed discussion:

http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/File_format

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