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Quite often you have a file which was edited within DOS or Windows and you are viewing it under UNIX. This can look like the following when you view the file with vi. First line of file^M Next Line^M And another^M If you wish to remove the ^M, it can be that you delete each ^M by hand. Alter...

When Vim opens a file with <CR><NL> line endings (common on MSDOS based operating systems, also called CRLF) it will set fileformat to dos, you can check what with: :set fileformat? fileformat=dos Or just :set ff? fileformat=dos To convert it to <NL> line endings (com...