From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 3 09:11:51 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5252716A4CF for ; Wed, 3 Dec 2003 09:11:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from crude.lateral.net (ns.lateralnet.com [195.224.94.179]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B28F943FD7 for ; Wed, 3 Dec 2003 09:11:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from loz@crude.lateral.net) Received: by crude.lateral.net (Postfix, from userid 1025) id 2088527DA3; Wed, 3 Dec 2003 17:11:47 +0000 (GMT) Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 17:11:47 +0000 From: Loz Froggatt To: paul beard Message-ID: <20031203171146.GA26565@lateral.net> References: <20031201031602.GA80581@bsdjunky.homeunix.org> <20031130212913.1d7c0126.b_cassidy@bellsouth.net> <20031130213933.72712e71.b_cassidy@bellsouth.net> <200312010353.01517.freebsd-questions@webteckies.org> <6E4D2542-23AB-11D8-9D3B-000A95BBCCF8@mac.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6E4D2542-23AB-11D8-9D3B-000A95BBCCF8@mac.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i cc: Melvyn Sopacua cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: Bryan Cassidy Subject: Re: Remove ^M characters from xhtml file X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 17:11:51 -0000 * paul beard [2003-12-01 03:07]: > On Nov 30, 2003, at 6:53 PM, Melvyn Sopacua wrote: > >BTW: why is this even an issue that needs a solution? XHTML doesn't > >care one > >way or the other, since all linear spacing is folded into one space. > > It's distracting to look at all that stuff if you're editing in vi, I have the following line in my .vimrc set fileformats=unix,mac,dos which hides the ^Ms, but doesn't remove them - useful in a cross-platform environment, because Windows users don't complain about their line breaks breaking, if they access the file again :) cheers, /loz.