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How to force vim to end all lines with a single linefeed character (LF)

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As the title says, I need to force vim (in my case gVim) end all lines with a single linefeed character (LF). How can I do this? I'm trying to follow the standards for PHP coding, specifically http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/coding-standard.php-file-formatting.html#coding-standard.php-file-form…

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Fix for: How to force vim to end all lines with a single linefeed character (LF)

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The short answer is to open the file in Vim and then type " " then write the file. From that point on, Vim should treat the file as Unix fileformat and only use newline characters instead of carriage-return+newline. The long answer is that this some…

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