Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 20:46:18 -0400 From: Parv <parv@pair.com> To: Soo-Hyun Choi <shchoi@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vi editor related question Message-ID: <20040828004618.GA2856@moo.holy.cow> In-Reply-To: <34b425c50408271652314776b1@mail.gmail.com> References: <34b425c50408271652314776b1@mail.gmail.com>
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in message <34b425c50408271652314776b1@mail.gmail.com>, wrote Soo-Hyun Choi thusly... > > I edit ... certain text editor under Windows XP, and then I open > ... using vi editor under FreeBSD. Then, there are bunch of "^M" > sign at the end of each line. Does anyone know why this is > happening? Cause is the default line ending on Windows being different than on Unix/FreeBSD. > And, does anyone can tell me how to avoid this kind of things? Use an editor on Windows that saves the file as w/ Unix line ending. Or, use an editor on FreeBSD, like vim 6 from the ports, that will hide/change '^M' characters. Other methods is to preprocess your files... http://groups.google.com/groups?q=remove+%5EM+file http://groups.google.com/groups?q=remove+%5EM+group%3Acomp.* - Parv --
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