Re: [Help-nano] wierd chars..

[Jordi Mallach]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 10:37:31PM +0000, Neil Brown wrote:
>      How do I REMOVE the ^M that nano puts at the end of every line???
>    Checking my ASCII chart, looks like ^M is the character that DOS uses in
>    newlines but not Unix.  This can be affected by, when you go to save and
>    are writing the filename, press Escape, then D to toggle to and from DOS
>    format (list of options should be down the bottom).  Not sure if this can
>    be set in nanorc, but I would have thought under Linux the default should
>    be Unix format, not DOS.

Nano attempts to write those characters if it detects that the file is
DOS format. Are you using the -N/--noconvert option?

Thanks,
Jordi
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