Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 13:42:34 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Using vi in UNIX mode instead of DOS mode Message-ID: <20050321184233.GA11987@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 01:39:42PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Reid Thompson wrote: > >> Auteria Wally Winzer Jr. wrote: >> > Is there anyway of telling vi to use UNIX-mode editing >> > as supposed to DOS-mode? I want to avoid all the >> > "^M"'s when transferring files from Windows to UNIX, >> > even though I use dos2unix to remove them, I want to just simply >> > avoid that step. >> > >> > Any and all assistence is grately appreciated. >> > >> > Regards, >> > Auteria W. Winzer Jr. >> >> :help fileformat >> >> reid > >...or use binary mounts. I think vim will still "help" you even if you have binary mounts though, won't it? I just noticed that one of the files that I was editing on UNIX had CRLF line endings and vim was nice enough to mask that fact for me. I would expect binary mounts to behave similarly. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/