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Re: Unix/DOS text mode?
- From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>
- To: AGalick at attotech dot com, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 16:34:25 -0500
- Subject: Re: Unix/DOS text mode?
At 04:00 PM 11/19/2001, AGalick@attotech.com wrote:
>After an upgrade, I seem to have lost all sanity in vi(m).
>I used to see .txt files the same with notepad or vi, but
>now in vi every line ends with a blue ^M. I've played
>with mount -[t|b] and tried [un and re]installing vim but I'm
>stumped. The thing is, it seems to have also disabled all
>the nice search string history/recall (I guess because .viminfo
>also shows those damned ^M's). What have I done
>or what has cygwin done? I guess other stuff got upgraded,
>too, but I don't know what.
Try setting "fileformat=dos" in your .vimrc file if you always want
your files to be treated as a DOS text file. See the help in vim for
more info.
Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX
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