line breaks - How to convert the ^M linebreak to 'normal' linebreak in a file opened in vim?

Question

vim shows on every line ending ^M

How I do to replace this with a 'normal' linebreak?

Answer 1

Command

:%s/<Ctrl-V><Ctrl-M>/
/g

Where <Ctrl-V><Ctrl-M> means type Ctrl+V then Ctrl+M.

Explanation

:%s

substitute, % = all lines

<Ctrl-V><Ctrl-M>

^M characters (the Ctrl-V is a Vim way of writing the Ctrl ^ character and Ctrl-M writes the M after the regular expression, resulting to ^M special character)

/
/

with new line ( )

g

And do it globally (not just the first occurrence on the line).