Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20011119163238.017cfed0@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 16:34:25 -0500 To: AGalick@attotech.com, cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: Unix/DOS text mode? In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 04:00 PM 11/19/2001, AGalick@attotech.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. Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/