From: cjm18 AT psu DOT edu (Christopher Murray) Subject: Re: vim oddities (this message is somewhat verbose) 25 Jan 1999 20:38:55 -0800 Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19990125081908.009c54e0.cygnus.gnu-win32@mail.psu.edu> References: <3 DOT 0 DOT 5 DOT 32 DOT 19990124124217 DOT 015f32d0 AT pop DOT ma DOT ultranet DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com > >You must end up with a network path as far as vim is concerned. Check your >path and make sure none start with "//" or "\\\\". If they do, you'll >be looking on the network for the path and if its not found, it will default >to RAS. This problem is not vim specific. > Thanks, I'll look into this. >Use "set fileformats=unix,dos,mac" in your .vimrc file and make sure that >other related/older settings (binary/nobinary) are off. This will make >vim adjust to the format of the incoming file and write it out in the same >format. You won't see the ^M's with this approach. > This works wonderfully. When fishing around in the C source, I saw the logic that was supposedly testing the fileformat type, and was wondering why it wasn't figuring out what kind of file it was. I even tried hardwiring this logic to use the DOS format just to see what it might do, but that was for naught too. >Don't modify anything. vim is far too flexible and has taken all these >issues into account already. If you make modifications, you'll more than >likely ruin existing functionality and not achieve your goals. Use the >option settings I suggested and consult the help on these and other related >settings to understand what is there, how it should work, and why you don't >have to change source to get what you want. > Not to worry. I always consider hacking the source as a last possible resort. If my hacks had worked, I would have, of course, had the dilemna of using the hacked source which, as you suggest, has the potential for limiting other capabilities, or trying to find some more elegant solution. Thank you so much for your help Chris *************************************************************************** Christopher Murray Applied Research Laboratory Assistant Research Engineer The Pennsylvania State University Work Phone: (814) 865-2016 P.O. Box 30 Home Phone: (814) 231-2125 State College, PA 16804 Work Fax: (814) 863-1479 Email: cjm18 AT psu DOT edu v1.2a r+d>s TW 1/0/pw tG 12? 0 Animals 3 2 57.5% <16dec98> *************************************************************************** - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".