Re: Using vi in UNIX mode instead of DOS mode

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>]

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.

cgf

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