What are these ^M's that keep showing up in my files in emacs?
In git-config, set core.autocrlf
to true
to make git automatically convert line endings correctly for your platform, e.g. run this command for a global setting:
git config --global core.autocrlf true
Someone is not converting their line-ending characters correctly.
I assume it's the Windows folk as they love their CRLF. Unix loves LF and Mac loved CR until it was shown the Unix way.
^M
is 0x0d
, i.e. the carriage return character. If your display looks like
line 1^M line 2^M
then the file must have come from Windows because the standard newline sequence on Windows is CR
LF
(0x0d 0x0a
) whereas the standard newline sequence consists solely of LF
on Unices.
If the file had come from a Mac OS 9 or earlier system, you would see it as
line 1^Mline 2^M
because there would be no line feeds following the carriage returns.