I keep getting the ^M character in my .vimrc and it breaks my
configuration.
I keep getting the ^M character in my .vimrc and it breaks my configuration.
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I keep getting the ^M character in my .vimrc and it breaks my
configuration.
Unix uses 0xA for a newline character. Windows uses a combination of two characters: 0xD 0xA. 0xD is the carriage return character.
^Mhappens to be the way vim displays 0xD (0x0D = 13, M is the 13th letter in the English alphabet).You can remove all the
^Mcharacters by running the following:Where
^Mis entered by holding down Ctrl and typing v followed by m, and then releasing Ctrl. This is sometimes abbreviated as^V^M, but note that you must enter it as described in the previous sentence, rather than typing it out literally.This expression will replace all occurrences of
^Mwith the empty string (i.e. nothing). I use this to get rid of^Min files copied from Windows to Unix (Solaris, Linux, OSX).