From: Hans-Peter Schroecker <hps@...>
Date: 2004-09-20T14:59:47+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Vim/Ruby Configuration Files, 2004.09.20

"Gavin Sinclair" <gsinclair@soyabean.com.au> writes:

> Assaph wrote:
>>
>>>  $ gem install -r vim-ruby
>>>  $ (sudo) vim-ruby-install.rb (--help)
>>
>> Nice one.
>> However, some of the files had \r\n as line separators causing my vim to
>> barf. Had to manually convert them.
>
> D'oh!!  This release was supposed to solve that issue once and for all. 
> It intentionally creates \r\n lines for a Windows Vim installation and \n
> lines for a Unix installation.  'od' confirms this on my machine, where I
> have Vim installed for Windows and Cygwin (which is treated as Unix).
>
> Perhaps Vim wants \n lines no matter what OS it's running on.
> However, my Windows gvim doesn't barf on the \r\n lines.
>
> So can you give me more information about your situation?  Anything I can
> do to reproduce it?

On Linux, I can produce an error message by

1) vim -u NONE -U NONE
   (start vim without sourcing any configuration files)
2) :source foo.vim
   (where foo.vim is a dos-formatted vim-script)

For all I know, vim needs \n on *nix systems and accepts \n on Windows
systems.

Sincerely,
Hans-Peter