On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 12:12:58PM -0600, William Jensen wrote: > Highlighting and pasting from what I think is an origionally created > in windows text file to a linux file produces successive lines that > are indented across the screen. However when I create a file in > linux and then highlight and paste into another file it works fine. > I think the files that are giving me trouble are windows created > because I see: > > "BlessedEquipment.html" [dos] 127L, 4640C written > > when I :w in vim. If the problem is they were created within > windows then what is it I need to strip out of the files? Use perl > to do it? > > I'm frustrated with constantly having to highlight and << paragraphs > of text. try 'set ff=unix' to save as unix format and 'set ff=dos' to save in dos format. Hilighting is done with 'v' for visual while in command mode. You should really type ':help' one of these days and read a bit up on your editor. ;-) -- Chad Walstrom <chewie@wookimus.net> | a.k.a. ^chewie http://www.wookimus.net/ | s.k.a. gunnarr Key fingerprint = B4AB D627 9CBD 687E 7A31 1950 0CC7 0B18 206C 5AFD
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