Chapter 5. Working With Files

Table of Contents

5.1. Creating New Files
5.2. Opening Files
5.3. Saving Files
5.3.1. Two-Stage Save
5.3.2. Autosave and Crash Recovery
5.3.3. Backups
5.4. Line Separators
5.5. Character Encodings
5.5.1. Commonly Used Encodings
5.6. The File System Browser (FSB)
5.6.1. Navigating the File System
5.6.2. The Tool Bar
5.6.3. The Commands Menu
5.6.4. The Plugins Menu
5.6.5. The Favorites Menu
5.6.6. Keyboard Shortcuts
5.7. Reloading From Disk
5.8. Task Monitor, and background I/O tasks
5.9. Printing
5.10. Closing Files and Exiting jEdit

5.1. Creating New Files

File>New (shortcut: C+n) opens a new, empty, buffer. Another way to create a new file is to specify a non-existent file name when starting jEdit on the command line. A new file will be created on disk when the buffer is saved for the first time.