Vim: Convert ^M to linebreaks

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Vim: Convert ^M to linebreaks

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In case you see "^M" characters where linebreaks should be, and "set fileformat=dos" doesn't work - neither does "dos2unix", here's a trick:

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:%s/\r/\r/g
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gVim showing carriage return (^M) even when file mode is explicitly DOS
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