[Linux-disciples] Replacing carriage returns

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 11:22:33PM -0400, Chung-chieh Shan wrote:
> 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".

Fortunately -- not the usual case for me with vim -- I knew
all of the above. Searching for \n, as Adam suggested, did
the trick. Thanks for all your help, guys.

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