Re: Modeline/Special Character Errors

On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 02:04:55PM -0800, Ari wrote:

> When I open a pre-existing file with gVim 7.4 (on Windows 8), gVim
> complains about modeline issues, i.e. complaining that there are
> special characters at the end of the file like: ^J or ^M. Does anyone
> know how to resolve this? I added "set nocompatible" to the _vimrc
> (.vimrc) file.

> Moreover, the formatting of files are not maintained. For example,
> when I open a file in Emacs the content includes return, tab, etc.
> characters; however, when I open the same file in gVim, the content is
> displayed in a straight line. Example follows. Does anyone what is the
> cause of this issue and how to resolve it?

> Emacs:

> {
> "name": Ari,
> "tools": ["Emacs", "Vi", "Vim"],
> ...
> }

> gVim:

> { "name": Ari, "tools": ["Emacs", "Vi", "Vim"], ... }

I have a logfile created by procmail which, when I open it, it barks
about improper values in my modeline, when in fact there is no actual
modeline, but many lines containing "vim:"

My first attempt to open it politely I used

gvim + -c 'set nomodeline' procmail.log

which still gave the error. Then in a recent thread I was reminded that
the start option "--cmd" does stuff sooner than "-c", so

gvim + --cmd 'set nomodeline' procmail.log

opens the file with no error about invalid modeline.

(The "+" sends me to the end of the file which is where my interest
lies.)

Then I put it all in a bash script (.bat file for you) so I wouldn't
have to type all that every time I want to see the bottom of that file.

hth,

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