It’s been over 15 months since I moved to Mac (Unix-based) OS. Not too often but I still have to modify code that I wrote during my Windows days. The most common problem opening a DOS-formatted text file (PHP file in this case) is getting a ^M at the end of every line. Which looks something like this:
And here is how to get rid of them:
:%s/^M$//g
BE SURE YOU MAKE the ^M USING “CTRL-V CTRL-M” NOT BY TYPING “CARET M”! This expression will replace all the ^M’s that have carriage returns after them with nothing. (The dollar ties the search to the end of a line)
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Shalin bhai,
A simple :%s/$//g will also do the trick. And BTW, it is caret and not carrot
Thanks @A.
“CARROT M” phrase – which I quoted comes from the official ViM tips section – http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=26 – I did a quick copy paste then – I have fixed it on my blog at least.
:%s/$//g – Didn’t work for me!
@shalinjain:
“:%s/$//g” won’t work of course because it replaces your endofline, so probably, replacing a non-^M characters.
Really old post, but still highly ranked on a search. You probably want :%s/.$//
The dot means it will replace the last character before the end of the line, which is the ^M.