Convert ^M (Windows) line breaks to normal line breaks

carriage-return, eol, line-breaks, line-endings, vim

Solution

This is the only thing that worked for me:

:e ++ff=dos

Found it at: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/File_format

Problem

Vim shows `^M` on every line ending. How do I replace this with a normal line break in a file opened in Vim?

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