Re: Weirdness with vi
On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 01:07:13AM +0000, Michael Koehne wrote:
>
> At last a warning !not! to use vim. This vi has the ugly bug^h^h^hfeature
> to know that MS-DOS files end with \r\n. So vim will suppress the leading^M
> normaly shown by real vi versions. I've seen it many times that such a^M
> caused a script to break, and a programmer unable to find the bug for hours.
Yes, this is annoying when you're not expecting it, but you can control
how your file is saved with ":set fileformat=unix" (vim will convert
for you).
Alternately, you can fire up vim in binary mode ("vi -b filename.txt")
which will show you the ^M characters.
- Chris
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