gVim showing carriage return (^M) even when file mode is explicitly DOS

Question

I\'m using gVim on Windows. My code shows ^M characters at the end of lines. I used :set ff=dos to no avail. The ^M characters remain

Answer 1

This is probably a bit simple for many of you but on the off chance it's useful.

Based on richq's answer, I found these to be useful in my vimrc. Note, the second one is commented out normally because it makes dd a bit confusing since Vim will wait for another key stroke to work out if it's the mapped ex command.

function! D2u()
    execute '%s/\r\(\n\)/\1/g'
endfunction
"map d2u :%s/\r\(\n\)/\1/g

The first is run by typing call D2u() into ex and the second by pressing D2u in edit mode.