Re: dos and no end of file eol?

Marc Weber wrote:

> I know about binary, endoffile and ff=dos setting.
>
> Still I get this result:
>
> 61 62 63 0A 61 6F 6E 74 65 68 75
> ^^ no end of file eol. That's ok
> ^^ this is \n where is the \r ?
>
> Is this a bug?

What are you doing exactly?

> I want Vim to store file the way it got them - so that VCS control
> systems don't show that something changed all lines within a file.
> set binary should be enough. But apparently its not ?

Actually, you should normally not set binary to write back what was read.
'endoffile' is the exception, and that's because a decent text file must
end with a LF. Vim fixes that for you (it always has). If other tools
omit that LF you need to fix those tools, not Vim.

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