Re: Use EMACS and the ModeLine

[Havard Eidnes <he%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

> OOO! I tied to upem the file with vi.

s/upem/open/, I guess.

> ALL the text lines ended wit(h) '^M'

Yep, then it's a "DOS file" with CR+LF (Carriage return and Line
Feed) as the two-character line ending.  Unix text files use a
single line feed character as line ending.

> So I am changing ^m to something. Would that be ^D or \D ??

If you want to convert the file to Unix line ending from DOS line
ending format from within "vi", you can do

:%s/Ctl-VCtl-M//g

Where Ctl-V is "control-V" ("literal next" within "vi") and Ctl-M
is "control-M", i.e. CR.  This will remove all the CR characters
from the file.

Regards,

- Håvard