/harry-webster.co(.uk|m)/ » vim http://www.harry-webster.co.uk Harry Webster's Blog Thu, 11 Aug 2011 18:43:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Remove ^M in Vim http://www.harry-webster.co.uk/2010/02/remove-m-in-vim/ http://www.harry-webster.co.uk/2010/02/remove-m-in-vim/#comments Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:29:00 +0000 Harry http://www.harry-webster.co.uk/?p=22 Often people upload plain text files to one of the sites that I work with and when I edit it through Vim it’s covered in ^M’s… They’re created by Windows clients because there operating system deals with the end of a line differently to Linux.

To remove this in Vim

:%s/^V^M//g

The ^v is a CONTROL-V character and ^m is a CONTROL-M. When you type this, it will look like this:

:%s/^M//g
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