From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2004-09-21T23:47:34+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Vim/Ruby Configuration Files, 2004.09.20

On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 23:12:34 +0900, Cristi BALAN <mental@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm having a somewhat similar problem with vim 6.3 on windows. Because
> i want to make sure i don't get weird ^M stuff in my files, I have set
> the following in my _vimrc:
> set ff=unix
> set ffs=unix
> 
> Now, each time i do :h foo, or try to use a script that has ^M, i get
> warnings/errors saying
> Errors detected while processing modelines:
> E518: Unknown option ^M
> 
> I suspect that this is actually my fault since the help files that
> came with the win32 vim have crlf line endings and the default ff and
> ffs settings detect and work ok with those files.
> 
> So(big assumption on my part here, haven't tested anything), this
> probably works the other way too, if you have ffs=dos on windows,
> files that only have \n in them fail.

Use:

set ffs=unix,dos,mac

You'll get Unix file support first, but you won't lose your ability to
work with \r\n files.

This does not appear to make a difference on Unix.

-austin
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