5. Open File

Press Ctrl+O to open file from disk for editing.

"File:" prompt will appear for you to enter the file name.

You may type a filename and press ENTER. If such a file exists, its content will be loaded in memory for you to edit, otherwise you will start a new file with that name.

At the "File:" prompt you may just press ENTER, on an empty line, to open a file selection menu with the files from the current directory.

You may specify path and a mask like: "/home/myname/work/*.c;*.h" and press ENTER to open a file selection menu only of files matching the mask.

At the "File:" prompt you may press F4 to be prompted with selection of masks collected from the current set of document types defined in the editor.

As you type, your line will incrementally change in accordance with previous file names you entered (Like when entering text at the URL line in a web browser).

Press UP to examine the history. The history will be filtered to show only the entries that start with the substring you have already typed at the prompt line (press UP on an empty prompt to see the entire history unfiltered).

Press TAB for filename completion.

Press F7 to select from a complete list of filename completions.

If you have no "write" permitions, yellow on red "R" character will appear on the status line to indicate that the file can not be edited, as the load completes.

If you load a file that already has one copy in memory the new file will appear with ":2" added at its name on the status line. You will see a white or red "R" character to indicate that this copy can not be edited.

See also:

See section 29. Prompt line edit keys.
See section 4. New File.
See section 6. Open File As Read-Only.
See section 8. Save File.