topic VI in RHEL 5.3 not showing Control-M's in Operating System - Linux

VI in RHEL 5.3 not showing Control-M's

ECUse — Thu, 06 May 2010 12:38:48 GMT

I had a issue with a file that had Contol-M's in the file, but I didn't know there was Control-M's since they were not visible. I am using RHEL 5.3 vi and vim. I am use to these being displayed by default on HPUX with vi.

Is there a way to make the Control-M's visible by default or option when you have the file open with vi?

Thanks

Re: VI in RHEL 5.3 not showing Control-M's

ECUse — Thu, 06 May 2010 13:21:32 GMT

Finally figured it out...

:edit ++ff=unix

It has to do with the file format. Very annoying but at least I know how to do it now.

Re: VI in RHEL 5.3 not showing Control-M's

ECUse — Thu, 06 May 2010 13:24:23 GMT

Hopefully this will be helpful for others because it caused me grief.

Re: VI in RHEL 5.3 not showing Control-M's

Dennis Handly — Sun, 09 May 2010 02:12:31 GMT

When I use vim with windows/DOS formatted files, it mentions dos format on the status line and doesn't bother showing the control-Ms.

Re: VI in RHEL 5.3 not showing Control-M's

TwoProc — Tue, 11 May 2010 17:49:14 GMT

command at the bottom of the screen in vi:

:%s/$//

There you go, it's visible now.

I always want them gone - so I do the opposite:

:%s/$//