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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users vimrc help with line endings Post 302546233 by dude2cool on Wednesday 10th of August 2011 06:53:15 PM
Old 08-10-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by COKEDUDE
I was reading this and thought I could put this in my vimrc and it would convert the line endings to unix. Am I doing something wrong or am I missing something?

Code:
set ff=unix

Managing/Munging Line-Endings with Vi/Vim | Jeet Sukumaran

I used this command and it confirms that my global option is set to unix. I edited the file a little bit and saved it but it didn't convert it to unix. It remained in the dos format.

Code:
:verbose set ff? ffs?

Code:
fileformat=dos
  fileformats=unix,dos                                     
        Last set from ~/.vimrc

File format - Vim Tips Wiki
Hmm, the ::verbose set ff? ffs? Shows fileformat=dos, shouldn't it show Unix since you are setting fileformat=Unix? I think the fileformat gets set on the local buffer when you open the file. So if the file is in dos, when you open the file, it sets fileformat to dos. fileformat is a local variable. Fileformats, the other, note the plural is global and settable.
 

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Test::EOL(3)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					      Test::EOL(3)

NAME
Test::EOL - Check the correct line endings in your project SYNOPSIS
"Test::EOL" lets you check for the presence of trailing whitespace and/or windows line endings in your perl code. It reports its results in standard "Test::Simple" fashion: use Test::EOL tests => 1; eol_unix_ok( 'lib/Module.pm', 'Module is ^M free'); and to add checks for trailing whitespace: use Test::EOL tests => 1; eol_unix_ok( 'lib/Module.pm', 'Module is ^M and trailing whitespace free', { trailing_whitespace => 1 }); Module authors can include the following in a t/eol.t and have "Test::EOL" automatically find and check all perl files in a module distribution: use Test::EOL; all_perl_files_ok(); or use Test::EOL; all_perl_files_ok( @mydirs ); and if authors would like to check for trailing whitespace: use Test::EOL; all_perl_files_ok({ trailing_whitespace => 1 }); or use Test::EOL; all_perl_files_ok({ trailing_whitespace => 1 }, @mydirs ); DESCRIPTION
This module scans your project/distribution for any perl files (scripts, modules, etc) for the presence of windows line endings. FUNCTIONS
all_perl_files_ok all_perl_files_ok( [ \%options ], [ @directories ] ) Applies "eol_unix_ok()" to all perl files found in @directories (and sub directories). If no <@directories> is given, the starting point is one level above the current running script, that should cover all the files of a typical CPAN distribution. A perl file is *.pl or *.pm or *.t or a file starting with "#!...perl" Valid "\%options" currently are: o trailing_whitespace By default Test::EOL only looks for Windows (CR/LF) line-endings. Set this to true to raise errors if any kind of trailing whitespace is present in the file. o all_reasons Normally Test::EOL reports only the first error in every file (given that a text file originated on Windows will fail every single line). Set this a true value to register a test failure for every line with an error. If the test plan is defined: use Test::EOL tests => 3; all_perl_files_ok(); the total number of files tested must be specified. eol_unix_ok eol_unix_ok ( $file [, $text] [, \%options ] ) Run a unix EOL check on $file. For a module, the path (lib/My/Module.pm) or the name (My::Module) can be both used. $text is the diagnostic label emited after the "ok"/"not ok" TAP output. "\%options" takes the same values as described in "all_perl_files_ok". EXPORT
A list of functions that can be exported. You can delete this section if you don't export anything, such as for a purely object-oriented module. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Shamelessly ripped off from Test::NoTabs. SEE ALSO
Test::More, Test::Pod. Test::Distribution, <Test:NoWarnings>, Test::NoTabs, Module::Install::AuthorTests. AUTHORS
o Arthur Axel 'fREW' Schmidt <frioux@gmail.com> o Florian Ragwitz <rafl@debian.org> o Kent Fredric <kentfredric@gmail.com> o Peter Rabbitson <ribasushi@cpan.org> o Tomas Doran <bobtfish@bobtfish.net> COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2012 by Tomas Doran. This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself. perl v5.16.3 2012-06-15 Test::EOL(3)
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