patch 8.0.0227: crash with ff=dos when first line in file has no CR commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/2aa5f696b91a51f29873e340de4bdc182e1e8dd4 Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Tue Jan 24 15:46:48 2017 +0100 patch 8.0.0227: crash with ff=dos when first line in file has no CR Problem: Crash when 'fileformat' is forced to "dos" and the first line in the file is empty and does not have a CR character. Solution: Don't check for CR before the start of the buffer.

README_src.txt for version 8.0 of Vim: Vi IMproved.

The source archive contains the files needed to compile Vim on Unix systems.
It is packed for Unix systems (NL line separator).

For more information, see the README.txt file that comes with the runtime
archive (vim-8.0-rt.tar.gz).  To be able to run Vim you MUST get the runtime
archive too!