Commands To Load Files

There are several commands used to load files into buffers, these are,

Ctrl-x Ctrl-f

Prompts for the name of a file (using file-completion) and display the buffer containing that file. If the file has not already been loaded it will be read into a new buffer.

Ctrl-x Ctrl-v

Prompts for the name of a file, the current buffer is killed and the buffer in which the prompted-for file is being edited is displayed. As in find-file it will be read into a new buffer if it is not already in memory.

Ctrl-x Ctrl-r

Similar to find-file except that the buffer is marked as being read-only. This means that no modifications can be made to the buffer.

Ctrl-x i

Prompts for a file, then inserts it into the current buffer at the cursor position.

You can use the prompt's completion feature to expand abbreviated filenames typed to the prompt, for more information see section The Buffer Prompt.

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