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<h3 class="section">2.1 Terminology</h3>
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In this section we explain and contrast some of the terms
<code>ne</code> uses. Understanding these distinctions will go a long way
towards making the rest of this manual make sense.
<p>A <dfn>file</dfn> is a group of bytes stored on disk. This may seem rather
obvious, but the important distinction here is that <code>ne</code> does not
edit files; it edits <dfn>documents</dfn>.
<p>A <dfn>document</dfn> is what <code>ne</code> calls one of the “text thingies”
that you can edit. It is a sequence of lines of text in the computer's
memory—not on disk. Documents can be created, edited, saved in
files, loaded from files, discarded, <i>et cetera</i>. When a
document is loaded from or saved to a file, it remains
associated with that file by name until the document is
either closed or saved to a different file. Interactions between
documents and files are handled by the commands under the
‘<samp><span class="samp">File</span></samp>’ menu. The ‘<samp><span class="samp">Documents</span></samp>’ menu commands only deal with
documents. See <a href="Menus.html#Menus">Menus</a>.
<p>Internally, <code>ne</code> holds its documents in <dfn>buffers</dfn>. A
<dfn>buffer</dfn> is a chunk of memory in which <code>ne</code> holds something.
For example, each document is held in its own buffer, as are any loaded
or recorded macros, undo records, a copy of your last deleted line of
text, a copy of all your previous responses to long input, and several
other things.
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