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commit 9c2bb2fdb4335095be46b47f22152ceae967fcb5
parent 41b42742751f1056a615418aae9632d4a26123e5
Author: breadcat <peter@minskio.co.uk>
Date:   Thu, 11 Feb 2021 11:24:32 +0000

Update vim notes about line breaks

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content/posts/personal-vim-cheatsheet.md
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1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/content/posts/personal-vim-cheatsheet.md b/content/posts/personal-vim-cheatsheet.md
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 ---
 title: "Personal VIM cheatsheet"
 date: 2020-06-14T12:58:00
+lastmod: 2021-02-11T11:23:00
 tags : [ "Guides", "Learning", "Linux", "Servers", "Snippets", "Software", ]
 ---
 
@@ -119,10 +120,12 @@ Add the below to your `init.vim` file (if using neovim):
 	autocmd BufWritepre * %s/\n\+\%$//e
 ```
 
-Another point worth adding is sometimes files formatted outside vim will contain '^@' symbols scattered between letters. These represent null characters and can be removed by running:
+Another point worth adding is sometimes files formatted outside vim will contain '^@' or '^M' symbols scattered between letters. These represent null or line break characters and can be removed by running:
 ```
 %s/[\x0]//g
+%s/\r//g
 ```
 
 * **Edit 2020-12-02:** Added notes regarding reading file contents and command output.
 * **Edit 2021-01-02:** Added null character removal note.
+* **Edit 2021-02-11:** Added additional line break removal note.