Re: Best way to handle DOS newlines
On 2007-05-07, Ray Van Dolson <rvandolson@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I occasionally get emails generated from a web application here at work
> that uses DOS/Windows newlines instead of Unix ones. All the text
> shows up as one large line interspersed with ^M^M's. I'd like to
> figure out a good way to:
>
> 1. Correct this in the pager view of the message.
> 2. Correct this prior to the message being passed to my editor (vim)
> for quoting.
>
> Currently I am resolving 1 by using the following message-hook:
>
> message-hook '~f ChangeControl.System@xxxxxxxx' 'set display_filter="sed -f
> ~/bin/fix_m.sed"'
>
> Where fix_m.sed strips out the ^M's and replaces them with my preferred
> newlines.
>
> However, if I hit reply to this message, everything shows up in vim in
> the original format -- ie with the ^M's all intact and everything on
> one line.
>
> I can correct this from wtihin vim, but I'd prefer it all be automated.
>
> I tried a reply-hook similar to my message-hook above, but had no
> success.
>
> Any suggestions?
You could use a message-hook (even the same message-hook) to also
set 'editor' to vim with a -c option to execute a vim command to fix
those lines, e.g.,
message-hook '~A' 'set editor="vim'
message-hook '~f ChangeControl.System@xxxxxxxx' 'set editor="vim -c \"%!sed
-f ~/bin/fix_m.sed\""'
HTH,
Gary
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