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Re: Using vi in UNIX mode instead of DOS mode
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 01:39:42PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Reid Thompson wrote:
> >
> >> Auteria Wally Winzer Jr. wrote:
> >> > Is there anyway of telling vi to use UNIX-mode editing
> >> > as supposed to DOS-mode? I want to avoid all the
> >> > "^M"'s when transferring files from Windows to UNIX,
> >> > even though I use dos2unix to remove them, I want to just simply
> >> > avoid that step.
> >> >
> >> > Any and all assistence is grately appreciated.
> >> >
> >> > Regards,
> >> > Auteria W. Winzer Jr.
> >>
> >> :help fileformat
> >>
> >> reid
> >
> >...or use binary mounts.
>
> I think vim will still "help" you even if you have binary mounts though,
> won't it? I just noticed that one of the files that I was editing on
> UNIX had CRLF line endings and vim was nice enough to mask that fact for
> me. I would expect binary mounts to behave similarly.
Yes, it'll "help", but I understood the OP's question as how to get new
files written by VIm to have LF line endings *by default*. Once you
already have a file with CRLF line endings, Reid's answer about
'fileformat' is the way to go. Also, the 'fileformats' option (note the
's' at the end) configures this behavior (":se ffs=unix" will turn off
this "help").
Igor
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