I must be going *insane*!

I used a carriage-return-stripping script on this "Hello, World" script, and then there were no errors. But I'm editing it in VI (well, VIM), and usually these pesky characters show up as ^M. But they weren't visible. How strange. I feel sooo foolish, though. Why couldn't I see those darn \r's?

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RE: I must be going insane! by ZZamboni (Curate) on May 23, 2000 at 21:33 UTC
vim automatically recognizes DOS-style end-of-lines and treates them correctly. To force it to use unix-style EOLs, set the "filetype" variable to "unix": `:set ff=unix` [download] Then write the file. It will write it in Unix format. If you set ff=unix before loading a file, it should show the \r's as ^M. --ZZamboni	[reply] [d/l]