Re: [Mingw-msys] postinstall on Windows 9x

[Earnie B. <ear...@ya...>]

Luke Dunstan wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Earnie Boyd" <ear...@ya...>
> To: "Luke Dunstan" <cod...@ho...>
> Cc: "mingw-msys" <min...@li...>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 9:05 PM
> Subject: Re: [Mingw-msys] postinstall on Windows 9x
>
> > Well I do nocompatible but the MSYS runtime won't do text mode anyway.
>
> This is not an issue, because vim converts between DOS and Unix manually,
> not by opening files in text mode.
>

Yes it does! :)

>
> >
> > > If this is how you use it, I strongly recommend setting the
> > > "nocompatible" option in .vimrc so that the line endings are detected
> > > automatically and preserved (along with enabling many other features).
> If
> > > you do this, you can easily tell whether all lines have \r because if
> so,
> > > you will not see any ^M. You can save files in a different format by
> setting
> > > the "fileformat" option before writing. And yes, I am sure you could use
> > > ":autocmd" to automatically save *.bat files as DOS.
> > >
> >
> > So this still doesn't get the ^M on the end of the line.  I'll need to
> massage
> > vim for MSYS in that department with explicit writes of \r in nobinary
> mode.
>
> This did work for me.
> - I put "set nocompatible" in ~/.vimrc
> - did "vi test.txt"
> - typed in a few lines
> - typed command ":set fileformat=dos"
>

Ah, that did it.

I modified my /usr/share/vim/vim58/filetype.vim file to read (watch out for line
wrapping):

" Batch file for MSDOS (*.cmd is close enough)
au BufNewFile,BufRead *.bat,*.sys,*.cmd         set ft=dosbatch|set nobin|set
ff=dos

Thanks,
Earnie.