Loading and Saving Files

Since Jade is a text editor its main function is to edit files of text. This means that you must be able to read the text contained in a file into one of the editor's buffers, then save it back to disk when you have finished editing it. That is what this section deals with.

• Commands To Load Files: Key sequences to load files
• Commands To Save Files: How to save a buffer
• File Variables: Local variables defined in files
• Backup Files: Making backups
• Auto-Saving Files: Files can be saved periodically
• Accessing Compressed Files: Reading and writing gzipped files
• Other File Commands: How to delete, rename or copy files

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