writing and saving a text file

writing and saving a text file

[Matthew Pritchard]

How do edit and save a file to a specified directory?

Re: writing and saving a text file

[tomas]

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On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 06:25:22PM -0800, Matthew Pritchard wrote:
> How do edit and save a file to a specified directory?

Either via the menu "File -> Save As..." or with the key combination
"C-x C-w" (remember as "write to file".

regards
- -- t
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Re: writing and saving a text file

[Filipe Silva]

May I add a quick tip: C-x C-s is the equivalent of "save as...".


On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 7:20 AM, <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:

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> On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 06:25:22PM -0800, Matthew Pritchard wrote:
> > How do edit and save a file to a specified directory?
>
> Either via the menu "File -> Save As..." or with the key combination
> "C-x C-w" (remember as "write to file".
>
> regards
> - -- t
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Re: writing and saving a text file

[Kaushal Modi]

Didn't you mean C-x C-w (as the "'save-as" equivalent) ?

C-x C-s saves the current buffer.

On Mon, Nov 14, 2016, 6:55 AM Filipe Silva <filipe.silva@gmail.com> wrote:

> May I add a quick tip: C-x C-s is the equivalent of "save as...".
>
-- 

Kaushal Modi

Re: writing and saving a text file

[tomas]

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On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 09:54:49AM -0200, Filipe Silva wrote:
> May I add a quick tip: C-x C-s is the equivalent of "save as...".

No. C-x C-s is "save buffer", which would just write the buffer
back to the *same file* you loaded the file from. Of course,
if the buffer is new and not yet associated to a file, it would
be the same...

If you want to state the path to save to (and that's hw I read
the original poster's request "save a file to a specified
directory", but I must admit it's not very clear to me), then
C-x C-w is your friend.

regards
- -- tomás
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Re: writing and saving a text file

[Filipe Silva]

Yes, sorry for the confusion.

On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 10:14 AM, <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:

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> On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 09:54:49AM -0200, Filipe Silva wrote:
> > May I add a quick tip: C-x C-s is the equivalent of "save as...".
>
> No. C-x C-s is "save buffer", which would just write the buffer
> back to the *same file* you loaded the file from. Of course,
> if the buffer is new and not yet associated to a file, it would
> be the same...
>
> If you want to state the path to save to (and that's hw I read
> the original poster's request "save a file to a specified
> directory", but I must admit it's not very clear to me), then
> C-x C-w is your friend.
>
> regards
> - -- tomás
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