vim question: what does "converted" mean?

[Andrew Cowie]

On Tue, 2005-19-07 at 00:06 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
>   When saving a file, I'm often seeing stuff like...
> 
> ".dosboxrc" [converted] 169L, 4972C written

The short version is it's harmless.

That's a message from vi[m]. It means the file is in a different format
than the configured default native one. In this case, the use of the
word "format" predates more modern usages that you might be thinking of
- it merely refers to the end-of-line termination.

VIM is nice enough (if so configured) to automatically handle the
newline conversions. [DOS uses \r\n, Unix \n, Mac \r].

If you do :set you'll probably see "fileformat=dos" or something like
that. Do :set  fileformat=unix you will change the file's newline
convention.


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