Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 17:11:47 +0000 From: Loz Froggatt <loz@lateral.net> To: paul beard <paulbeard@mac.com> Cc: Bryan Cassidy <b_cassidy@bellsouth.net> Subject: Re: Remove ^M characters from xhtml file Message-ID: <20031203171146.GA26565@lateral.net> In-Reply-To: <6E4D2542-23AB-11D8-9D3B-000A95BBCCF8@mac.com> References: <20031201031602.GA80581@bsdjunky.homeunix.org> <20031130212913.1d7c0126.b_cassidy@bellsouth.net> <20031130213933.72712e71.b_cassidy@bellsouth.net> <200312010353.01517.freebsd-questions@webteckies.org> <6E4D2542-23AB-11D8-9D3B-000A95BBCCF8@mac.com>
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* paul beard <paulbeard@mac.com> [2003-12-01 03:07]: > On Nov 30, 2003, at 6:53 PM, Melvyn Sopacua wrote: > >BTW: why is this even an issue that needs a solution? XHTML doesn't > >care one > >way or the other, since all linear spacing is folded into one space. > > It's distracting to look at all that stuff if you're editing in vi, I have the following line in my .vimrc set fileformats=unix,mac,dos which hides the ^Ms, but doesn't remove them - useful in a cross-platform environment, because Windows users don't complain about their line breaks breaking, if they access the file again :) cheers, /loz.
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