comparison man/files.texi @ 90428:a8190f7e546e

Merge from emacs--devo--0 Patches applied: * emacs--devo--0 (patch 285-296) - Update from CVS - Merge from gnus--rel--5.10 - Update from CVS: admin/FOR-RELEASE: Update refcard section. * gnus--rel--5.10 (patch 102-104) - Update from CVS Revision: [e-mail]/emacs--unicode--0--patch-64

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  What if you want to create a new file?  Just visit it.  Emacs displays
@samp{(New file)} in the echo area, but in other respects behaves as if
you had visited an existing empty file.  If you make any changes and
save them, the file is created.

  Emacs recognizes from the contents of a file which convention it uses
to separate lines---newline (used on GNU/Linux and on Unix),
carriage-return linefeed (used on Microsoft systems), or just
carriage-return (used on the Macintosh)---and automatically converts the
contents to the normal Emacs convention, which is that the newline
character separates lines.  This is a part of the general feature of
coding system conversion (@pxref{Coding Systems}), and makes it possible
to edit files imported from different operating systems with
equal convenience.  If you change the text and save the file, Emacs
performs the inverse conversion, changing newlines back into
carriage-return linefeed or just carriage-return if appropriate.

@vindex find-file-run-dired
  If the file you specify is actually a directory, @kbd{C-x C-f} invokes
Dired, the Emacs directory browser, so that you can ``edit'' the contents
of the directory (@pxref{Dired}).  Dired is a convenient way to view, delete,

diff-mode}.

  One general feature of Diff mode is that manual edits to the patch
automatically correct line numbers, including those in the hunk
header, so that you can actually apply the edited patch.  Diff mode
also provides the following commands to navigate, manipulate and apply
parts of patches:

@table @kbd
@item M-n
Move to the next hunk-start (@code{diff-hunk-next}).

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  What if you want to create a new file?  Just visit it.  Emacs displays
@samp{(New file)} in the echo area, but in other respects behaves as if
you had visited an existing empty file.  If you make any changes and
save them, the file is created.

  Emacs recognizes from the contents of a file which end-of-line
convention it uses to separate lines---newline (used on GNU/Linux and
on Unix), carriage-return linefeed (used on Microsoft systems), or
just carriage-return (used on the Macintosh)---and automatically
converts the contents to the normal Emacs convention, which is that
the newline character separates lines.  This is a part of the general
feature of coding system conversion (@pxref{Coding Systems}), and
makes it possible to edit files imported from different operating
systems with equal convenience.  If you change the text and save the
file, Emacs performs the inverse conversion, changing newlines back
into carriage-return linefeed or just carriage-return if appropriate.

@vindex find-file-run-dired
  If the file you specify is actually a directory, @kbd{C-x C-f} invokes
Dired, the Emacs directory browser, so that you can ``edit'' the contents
of the directory (@pxref{Dired}).  Dired is a convenient way to view, delete,

diff-mode}.

  One general feature of Diff mode is that manual edits to the patch
automatically correct line numbers, including those in the hunk
header, so that you can actually apply the edited patch.  Diff mode
treats each hunk location as an ``error message'', so that you can use
commands such as @kbd{C-x '} to visit the corresponding source
locations.  It also provides the following commands to navigate,
manipulate and apply parts of patches:

@table @kbd
@item M-n
Move to the next hunk-start (@code{diff-hunk-next}).