Giving your document a name

We recommend you to give your document a name before you start to edit it, by saving it under a new name. This is achieved by selecting the Save buffer as item in the icon menu or the Save as item in the File menu: press the left mouse button on , move your cursor to Save buffer as while maintaining the left mouse button pressed, and release the left mouse button.

Figure 1. Giving your document a name by saving it under a new name.

Notice that you could have achieved the same thing by simultaneously pressing the shift and the F3 keys, as suggested by the help balloon. This help balloon automatically shows up when leaving the mouse pointer on the Save buffer as for a while. After you released the left mouse button, a new window of the following form pops up:

Figure 2. The file-chooser can be used to browse your directory tree.

This window is also called a file browser, because you can interactively choose a file name and a directory where to save your file, by using the keyboard or the mouse. In the example, .., images, phonetic and test are the parent directory and subdirectories of the current directory. The file demo.tm is an already existing TeXmacs file in the current directory. The buttons Home and Texts can be used to return to your home directory or a special directory for TeXmacs documents.

In order to finish the action of giving our text a name, we just type test.tm in the File: field and press on Ok:

Figure 3. Entering the name test.tm and clicking on the Ok button.

We notice that you should always let your file name end by the .tm suffix, so that anyone can recognize that your file is a TeXmacs document. After giving your text a name, your main window should look like

Figure 4. Your document has been saved under the name test.tm.

First of all, you may notice the change of the title of your window. Furthermore, a message on the footer confirms the name change.