[UCLA-LUG] Getting rid of "^M"s in vi

[Joshua Uziel]

* Denis <kiev78@pacbell.net> [000708 16:21]:
> > Another way (that I use, and I think it's more direct) is to do
> >
> >         :%s/^V^M//g
> 
> i may be mistaken, but i think this is a VIM thing. i am not sure if
> Vi has ^V. i am pretty sure it does not. also, not all distros ship
> with vim. debian, for example, does not use ( as far as i know) vim as
> default editor.

I'm pretty damn sure that ^V is a Unix-ism... not a Vim-ism.
Have you tried?  I believe I recall using it with standard Solaris
vi in the past...

Besides... you can use it in a shell prompt.  I've used it quite
a bit in the past...

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