Tickets :: Comment on [#25] error :source-ing files with "variable length" record format

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Comment	> Files with record format "variable length" can be opened (edited) by > vim with no > problems, but :source-ing them fails since there are no newlines. > > Presumably, "variable length" is one of those RMS formats where > newlines are not > stored in the file. Instead, RMS knows the lengths of the individual > "rows"/records. > > OpenVMS uses a record-based file system, which stores text files as one > record per line. In most file formats, no line terminators are actually > stored, but the Record Management Services facility can > transparently add a > terminator to each line when it is retrieved by an application. > > -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crlf > > It would seem that when a file is edited, the newlines are added, but > when it is > sourced, they are not. > > Please consider the file in the attachment (a.vim). It can be edited (vim > a.vim), but sourcing it (:so a.vim) fails.
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