[Linux-disciples] Replacing carriage returns

[Chung-chieh Shan]

On 2004-04-18T15:53:01-0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> This is probably a really simple question, but: how do I
> replace carriage returns in vim? I tried searching for <cr>
> or <CR>, and I did the Ctrl+v Ctrl+Enter trick; neither
> worked. What am I missing?

Do you mean what Vim shows as ^M?  Ctrl-V Ctrl-M enters it.

If Vim opens a file in "DOS mode", it takes ^M^J as a line break, rather
than ^J as usual.  In that case, change the line breaks to ^J with ":set
fileformat=unix".  For more help, ":help fileformat".

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