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I copied a vimrc file from a windows box running gvim and tried using it on an OSX box. Turns out there are a bunch of characters that my unix vim doesn't like in the file. I assume they're Windows EOL characters or something - doesn't really matter. Anyway, Is there an easy way to remove them all at once, or convert the file to a unix friendly format?

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Ah, figured it out. To convert to a nice unix format, just use :set ff=unix then :w. See this S/O answer...

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  • Or remove them with :%s/<C-v><Enter>//. Vim on Windows supports Unix EOL but Vim on Unix doesn't like Windows EOL. It's best to always use Unix EOL.
    – romainl
    Mar 3, 2013 at 8:11

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