AdmiNirvana » vim http://www.briandowney.net/blog Technical musings of an entrepreneur. Fri, 20 Jan 2012 02:55:11 +0000 en hourly 1 vim tip of the day http://www.briandowney.net/blog/2008/01/29/vim-tip-of-the-day/ http://www.briandowney.net/blog/2008/01/29/vim-tip-of-the-day/#comments Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:14:27 +0000 Brian http://www.briandowney.net/blog/2008/01/29/vim-tip-of-the-day/ Vim is a great editor. I don’t want to start an EMACS versus vim flame war here. It is just personal preference: I “get” vim, whereas EMACS confuses me.

Anyway, here’s a clever little tip for users of vim that often have to open both DOS and UNIX format files (you know, the old ^M line feed problem):

While in the editor you can write out either format.

:set ff=unix
:w

Sets the file to UNIX linefeeds, while

:set ff=dos
:w

Sets them to DOS. Enjoy!

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