Vim errors when setting up Plutus Environment

Question

I'm following this guide for setting up my Plutus Environment which uses Vagrant & VirtualBox.

At the step:

In the Vagrantfile directory run & wait for provisioning to finish: vagrant up

I run into multiple Vim errors-

plutus-node-1: Vim: Warning: Output is not to a terminal
plutus-node-1: Vim: Warning: Input is not from a terminal
plutus-node-1: Error detected while processing /home/vagrant/.vimrc:
plutus-node-1: line    1:
plutus-node-1: E488: Trailing characters
plutus-node-1: line    2:
plutus-node-1: E492: Not an editor command: ^M
plutus-node-1: line    3:
plutus-node-1: E116: Invalid arguments for function plug#
plutus-node-1: line    4:
plutus-node-1: E492: Not an editor command: ^M
plutus-node-1: line    5:
plutus-node-1: E488: Trailing characters
plutus-node-1: line    6:
plutus-node-1: E492: Not an editor command: ^M
plutus-node-1: line    7:
plutus-node-1: E492: Not an editor command: ^M
plutus-node-1: line   10:
plutus-node-1: E474: Invalid argument: encoding=utf-8^M
plutus-node-1: line   11:
plutus-node-1: E492: Not an editor command: ^M
plutus-node-1: line   13:
plutus-node-1: E488: Trailing characters: hidden^M
plutus-node-1: line   14:
plutus-node-1: E492: Not an editor command: ^M

Vim: Error reading input, exiting...d/j: screen/page/line down, b/u/k: up, q: quit
plutus-node-1: Vim: Finished.
plutus-node-1: Press ENTER or type command to continueVim: Error reading input, exiting...
plutus-node-1: Vim: Finished.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

There are a few things. First of why is there a /home/vagrant/.vimrc in the first place? Second why does it contain ^M (that's effectively \r), in there? dos2unix on /home/vagrant/.vimrc should fix that.

Are you using WSL by any chance? I'm unsure how windows line endings could end up in your .vimrc otherwise.