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Re: FW: vim 6.1.300-1 DOS line endings (newline expansion)
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: "Christensen, David" <dchristensen at Asyst dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 18:29:17 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: FW: vim 6.1.300-1 DOS line endings (newline expansion)
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Christensen, David wrote:
> cygwin at cygwin dot com:
>
> Igor Pechtchanski wrote on February 21, 2003 2:35 PM:
> > Put the following in your ~/.vimrc:
> >
> > set fileformat=dos
>
> Sounds logical. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work:
>
> dchristensen at A05390:~$ cat .vimrc
> set autoindent
> set number
> set shiftwidth=4
> set fileformat=dos
> " Cygwin:
> syntax off
> " Linux:
> ":if exists("syntax_on") | syntax off | else | syntax enable | endif
> dchristensen at A05390:~$ vi baz
> 1 abcd
> 2
> dchristensen at A05390:~$ cat baz
> abcd
>
> dchristensen at A05390:~$ dump baz
> 000000 a b c d \n \n
> 000006
>
>
> I believe .vimrc is read every time Vim starts. I don't get it...
>
> David
David,
After reading vim help carefully, seems you also need the "fileformats"
variable set. Try
set fileformats=dos
set fileformat=dos
and see what happens. For more details, "vim -c 'help file-formats'".
Igor
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