File Handling
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The operating system stores data permanently in named "files", so
most of the text you edit with Emacs comes from a file and is ultimately
stored in a file.
To edit a file, you must tell Emacs to read the file and prepare a
buffer containing a copy of the file's text. This is called "visiting"
the file. Editing commands apply directly to text in the buffer; that
is, to the copy inside Emacs. Your changes appear in the file itself
only when you "save" the buffer back into the file.
In addition to visiting and saving files, Emacs can delete, copy,
rename, and append to files, keep multiple versions of them, and operate
on file directories.