[lug] Beautify in vi

[John Hernandez]

He's right indeed.  Duh.

So, that's <ctrl-v><ctrl-m> between the leaning toothpicks.  The literal carret (^) in a regex means "at the beginning of a line,"
which is not what you want.

"Holshouser, David" wrote:
> 
> It's slightly more difficult than that in my experience.
> :%s/^v^m//g
> 
> the ^v says don't look at my next keystroke, just trust me.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John Hernandez [SMTP:John.Hernandez at noaa.gov]
> > Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 3:45 PM
> > To:   lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> > Subject:      Re: [lug] Beautify in vi
> >
> > :%s/^M//g
> >
> > John Starkey wrote:
> > >
> > > I have several files that I transfered from linux to FreeBSD. On the
> > > FreeBSD server the command chars are showing up. Mainly ^M. I saw that
> > > set: beautify is supposed to clean those out. But it isn't and I found
> > > one doc that says it only does so when reading into a file. I tried
> > > creating a new file and reading the old one into it. Still no luck.
> > >
> > > Anyone know of something I could do to strip these automatically?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > John
> > >
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