跨多个操作系统在VIM中进行编译

Question

The problem I have is this:

Open up vim on a windows machine, make something that compiles and save it.

Move to a new workstation that is a Mac, open that same file in VIM, makes changes that are correct and get weird results, or sometimes issues with it even compiling.

From what I have found it seems it is because of the encoding the operating systems use with the line returns. Even if the code is good oddities will occur.

After looking around I found this to add to my .vimrc:

set fileformats=unix,mac,dos

but it does not seem to do the trick. Has anyone else encountered this problem and knows of a efficient solution?

Thank you

Answer 1

The default 'fileformats' setting should already cover all cases of consistent line endings. You do run into trouble when you have mixed (eg LF and some CR-LF) endings, though. You should easily detect those by inspecting the buffer, though. If there are any lines with trailing ^M characters, you can remove those with

:%s/\r$//

In any case, such problems indicate a misconfigured tool chain. Configured well, Revision Control Systems and file transfer utilities should make line endings transparent. You didn't mention any specifics of your environment, so it's hard to help there.