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Date:	Mon, 19 Nov 2001 16:34:25 -0500
To:	AGalick AT attotech DOT com, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From:	"Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject:	Re: Unix/DOS text mode?
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At 04:00 PM 11/19/2001, AGalick AT attotech DOT com wrote:
>After an upgrade, I seem to have lost all sanity in vi(m).
>I used to see .txt files the same with notepad or vi, but
>now in vi every line ends with a blue ^M.  I've played
>with mount -[t|b] and tried [un and re]installing vim but I'm
>stumped.  The thing is, it seems to have also disabled all
>the nice search string history/recall (I guess because .viminfo
>also shows those damned ^M's).  What have I done
>or what has cygwin done?  I guess other stuff got upgraded,
>too, but I don't know what.


Try setting "fileformat=dos" in your .vimrc file if you always want
your files to be treated as a DOS text file.  See the help in vim for
more info.





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