VIM + GVIM ^M Characters EVERYWHERE

Yeah, so I do a reinstall of Linux and open vim and see ^M

EVERYWHERE,

So Installed GVIM and got the same thing,

Never had this happen so don't know how to get rid of it.

halp

>>9
Perfect compatibility with Vi is possible but not desirable¹.

_{¹ http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/RZ/software/emacs/viper/viper_3.html}