Vim: \n vs. \r

Question

I haven\'t used vim in a Unix system in a while, but as I recall there was no \\r, it was always \\n.

I\'m using gVim under windows and when I search for new

Answer 1

Lookup up:

:set fileformat=unix
:set fileformat=dos

This can be used on either platform to switch to the other encoding.

Answer 2

vim does some messing around with carriage returns (\r) and newlines (\n). For instance, if you're in Unix and vi shows you lines ending in '^M' because they're Windows text files, an easy way to get rid of them is to enter the command

:%s/^V^M/^V^M/g

It doesn't look like it should do anything, but it does.