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--- docs:vim:fileformats [2007/03/25 21:09] – created billh
+++ docs:vim:fileformats [2009/06/24 17:39] (current) – billh
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+====== fileformats ======
+  * http://www.vi-improved.org/wiki/index.php/FileFormat
+===== Fixing Detection Problems =====
+If your file has consistent line endings throughout, but you have had a 'ff' detection problem, the best fix is to force Vim to use the correct format with the :e command:
+<code>
+:e ++ff=mac
+</code>
+If your file **does not** have consistent line endings throughout, you need to force vim to load it a certain way without any assumptions.  This example is where the output from a grep command was run and captured to a file.  Some of the results were from dos files, and others from unix files, so the line endings aren't consistent, and vim shows us ^M characters because it is interpreted as unix.
+<code>
+:set ffs=dos
+:e ++ff=dos
+</code>
+In this case you should see vim list [CR missing] in the status line after loading the file.  Vim has fixed the line endings for you, so now you can simply do this to save the file and open it as a corrected dos file:
+<code>
+:w
+:e!
+</code>
+===== conversion =====
+This will read a file (assuming "dos"), convert line-endings to unix (<CR><NL> pairs will be <NL>):
+<code>
+:e file
+:set fileformat=unix
+:w
+</code>