Re: mc and mcedit problem - ^M

["Alexander Varakin" <avarakin00 hotmail com>]

Randy,

You should upgrade to v 4.6.0.
This problem is fixed there - mc shows ^M exactly as vi does, so you will
never accidentally embed them into your text.
I know this because I submitted fix for this problem ;-)

Alex


----- Original Message -----
From: <rwright msiinet com>
To: <mc gnome org>
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 10:19 AM
Subject: mc and mcedit problem - ^M


> I am using Midnight Commander under SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 for IBM
> zSeries.   I'm an old mainframer building Linux skills who likes your
> product because it makes a lot of things a lot easier and I like the
editor
> because I don't have to use vi (thank God).  I have encountered a small
> problem with your editor that is driving me nuts.
>
> I am editing some shell scripts.  At some point when I edit them, I'm
> getting some sort of special character or something inserted at the end of
> each line by your editor.   You cannot see these at all when viewing the
> file in your editor but they're there, and if you use the vi editor to
look
> at the file, they show up as a  ^M at the end of each line.  I can start
> with a file that does not have these, and at some point which I haven't
> nailed down yet, they get put there while using mcedit.   These are
> apparently causing the shell script not to run correctly.   What are
these,
> and why are they being put there?  Can I stop this?  Is it a bug?  Thanks
> in advance for your reply.   Here is the information from mc --version...
>
> GNU Midnight Commander 4.5.55
> Edition: text mode
> Virtual File System: tarfs, extfs, ftpfs, mcfs, undelfs
> With builtin Editor
> Using S-Lang library with terminfo database
> With subshell support as default
> With support for background operations
> With mouse support on xterm and Linux console
> Using default locale
>
> Randy Wright
> zSeries Integration Engineer
> MSI Systems Integrators
> 8000 Maryland Avenue, Suite 410
> St. Louis, Mo.  63105
> Office (314) 726-3635
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> Email  rwright msiinet com
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