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The file options panel

The file options panel

Select File options... (Options menu, Shift Ctrl F) to open the file options panel, which specifies the behaviour of Edith when loading and saving text files.

At the top of the panel, you specify behaviour on loading text files. Non-UNIX newlines (as used on Macintosh and MS-DOS systems) can be automatically converted when loading a text. Files matching a given pattern can automatically be loaded using the rcp program when they are opened from a different host machine or user (this is useful for e.g. mail messages in /tmp/.)

The number of files opened in one go (usually from the command line) can be limited. When you attempt to open more files than the specified limit, you can choose for remaining files to be queued immediately (see below), or alternatively for the editor to ask for feedback.

The rest of the panel specifies save behaviour. The automatic backup and interval carbon copy (see below) functions can be switched on and off in this panel. Furthermore, you can specify how backups and carbon copies should be named, and at which interval carbon copies should be written.

Normally, you are informed when there is a carbon copy of a file when you attempt to open it. This feature can be switched off in the file options panel.

THE INPUT QUEUE

In the file options panel, you can specify a maximum to the number of text files that can be opened for editing in a single command, a single command usually being a call to Edith from a terminal window. When a command exceeds this number, an alert panel will pop up asking whether some of the requested files should be put `on hold' in the input queue. Files that are on hold can be opened with Open next (File menu, Ctrl N). Edith will, if so chosen in the options panel, also notify you of files in the input queue as soon as all other editor windows have been closed.

CARBON COPIES

Apart from the usual backups, Edith has an additional safety measure: carbon copies. These are copies of files, like backups, but they are made either on your request (when closing a window whose contents have changed), or when the Edith system unexpectedly terminates, e.g. by a kill command or broken display connection. Another option is to have carbon copies made at set intervals. This can all be configured in the file options panel.

You will be informed of the presence of a carbon copy when opening the original file. On saving the file, carbon copies will be deleted.


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