Comments on: (Nerd) ^M Removing control characters using VIM http://www.acloudtree.com/nerd-m-removing-control-characters-using-vim/ Programming, Computers, Writing, Economics, and Life Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:05:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: jared.folkins http://www.acloudtree.com/nerd-m-removing-control-characters-using-vim/comment-page-1/#comment-1966 jared.folkins Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:01:00 +0000 http://www.acloudtree.com/?p=566#comment-1966 \r = carriage return ^M = carriage return SpX, thanks for the tip. Though a lot of people don't understand that ^M, is not Shift + 6 + M. Hopefully this tutorial illustrates the fact that ^M is actually a single character. And when the user sees other characters on their screen that look similar, a light bulb hopefully goes off. -thanks again \r = carriage return
^M = carriage return

SpX, thanks for the tip. Though a lot of people don’t understand that ^M, is not Shift + 6 + M.

Hopefully this tutorial illustrates the fact that ^M is actually a single character. And when the user sees other characters on their screen that look similar, a light bulb hopefully goes off.

-thanks again

]]> By: SpX http://www.acloudtree.com/nerd-m-removing-control-characters-using-vim/comment-page-1/#comment-1965 SpX Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:21:34 +0000 http://www.acloudtree.com/?p=566#comment-1965 try :%s/\r// try :%s/\r//

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