Reference: File Functions
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FILE
CUSTOMISATION,
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- new
- Key: Alt-n
- Menu: File
- Open a new, empty window. The text in that window is not linked to any
file. A file name must be specified when the file is saved for the first
time. Until then, the window title shows the words <no name>
instead of the file name.
- open
- Key: Alt-o
- Menu: File
- Open a file in another window. A file selection dialogue is shown to
select the file. The file specified in the file selection box must exist.
To create a new file use new.
- open-selection
- Key: Shift-Alt-o
- Menu: File
- "Open Selection" lets you select a name of a file in a text and open
the file that you selected. You can, for instance, select the name
of an include file and open that file using "Open Selection".
The name must be a complete path from the current file's directory -
in other words: if you select a pure file name (without a path) it will
only work if that file is in the same directory as the file you are
currently working on.
This function also works if the selection is in
another application. This means that you can, for example, have
a directory listing in an xterm, select one of the file names in the
xterm window, and use "Open Selection" to open that file (again, subject
to that file being in the right directory).
- save
- Key: Alt-s
- Menu: File
- Save the text to a file if modified. Typically the file used to save into
is the one the text was read from originally or the one that was specified
for the last save (whatever happened last). If the text has never been
saved, a file selection box is opened to let the user specify a file name.
If the file existed before and the option "Make backup when saving" is
selected in the prefences dialogue (see
preferences), the previous
version becomes a backup file.
Backup files have the same file name with the added suffix ".~".
If the text was not changed, it will not be saved to the file. Instead, the
message "No changes need to be saved" will be displayed in the information
area. To force a save (e.g. when you know that the file has changed on disk
and you want to save the text even though it has not changed in the editor)
select "Save" again. Activating the "Save" function twice forces the text
to be saved regardless of whether it has been changed.
- save-as
- Menu: File
- Save the text under a new file name. A file selection box is opened to let
the user specify a name. Creates a backup file as described in
save.
- reload
- Menu: File
- Reload the buffer from the file. All changes since the last save will be
lost and the buffer is reverted to the last saved version.
A dialogue is shown before this function is executed to confirm.
- close
- Key: Alt-w
- Menu: File
- Close the editor window. If the text had not been saved a dialogue is
shown before closing to let the user save the text. If it was the only Red
window open, exit Red.
- print
- Key: Alt-p
- Menu: File
- Print the text. A dialogue is opened to specify some printing options.
EDIT,
MOVE&SCROLL
FILE
CUSTOMISATION,
HELP,
MISC.
MAIN INDEX
FUNCTION OVERVIEW