mc and mcedit problem - ^M

[Dmitry Semyonov]

On Fri, 6 Jun 2003 rwright at msiinet.com wrote:

> I am editing some shell scripts.  At some point when I edit them, I'm
> getting some sort of special character or something inserted at the end of
> each line by your editor.   You cannot see these at all when viewing the
> file in your editor but they're there, and if you use the vi editor to look
> at the file, they show up as a  ^M at the end of each line.  I can start
> with a file that does not have these, and at some point which I haven't
> nailed down yet, they get put there while using mcedit.   These are
> apparently causing the shell script not to run correctly.   What are these,
> and why are they being put there?  Can I stop this?  Is it a bug?  Thanks
> in advance for your reply.   Here is the information from mc --version...
>
> GNU Midnight Commander 4.5.55

Never noticed such behaviour in mcedit...

You may try to upgrade to the latest version (>= 4.6.0) of mc.
mcedit from the package shows ^M characters (like as vi does).


...Bye..Dmitry.