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opens where you can name the file or directory. If you want to create a file within a specific directory,
highlight that directory in the Konquerer window before you select
After you create an empty file or directory, it appears in the Konquerer window. You can open a file
and begin entering content by highlighting it and then selecting
selecting the tool you want to work in.
You can also open a text editor and just make the file without going through either of the file managers.
Just open Emacs by going to
menu. Now in Emacs, go to
your text here. When you are finished, go to
Emacs screen, you will see:
Write file: ~/
Type the name of the file here, after the /, and press
before the file name, if you like. Otherwise, it will be saved in the directory in which you are currently
working.
To create a new directory, you can follow the same steps above for creating a file using the graphical
file manager, but select
command at a shell prompt, as explained below.
Open a shell prompt screen by clicking on the appropriate icon on the panel at the bottom of your
desktop. Move to your login directory and type:
mkdir tigger
Now, you have created a directory called tigger in your login directory. Your new directory's abso-
lute pathname is /home/ yourlogin /tigger, and your home directory is the parent of tigger.
A.1.9 Saving, Naming, and Finding Files
Any file you create that you want to keep must be saved. Simply click on
such similar menu option--they are usually obvious )and your work is saved. To name the file, select
instead of
Save as
is to be saved and where you type a name for that file. It is best to use extensions on the end of
your file names since extensions explain what type of file it is. For example, a text file should be
saved as <filename>.txt, an HTML file should be <filename>.html and so on. For descriptions of file
extensions see Appendix C, Identifying/Finding File Extensions.
Save often. Very important. As you work, click on
puters are known to experience power surges or they just lock up for no obvious reason sometimes.
Power surges often cause your machine to spontaneously reboot or shudown. When this happens, any
unsaved data is lost.
Main Menu
=>
Files Open Files
File => New => Directory
. A dialog box will open where you select the directory in which that file
Save
Appendix A:Computer Basics
=> =>
Programs Applications
. This opens an empty screen and you can fill in
=>
Files Save Buffer As
. You can designate a specific directory
[Enter]
from the main menu. Or you can use the mkdir
=> , or some such equivalent, often. Com-
File Save
=>
Edit Create New
Location => Open With
=>
Emacs
. At the very bottom of the
File => Save
.
and then
on the main
(or some