Creating a Fred window

You create a Fred window by choosing the New or Open... command from the File menu.

Open a new Fred window.
Choose the New command from the File menu.
You see two windows on the screen, your original Listener and a new Fred window. The new Fred window becomes the active window.

Figure 2-4 A Fred window and a Listener

A Fred window displays an editor buffer, which contains a copy of the text you're editing. If the window is new, it doesn't yet correspond to a file on disk; the only copy is in the buffer. Otherwise the buffer contains a copy of the text from the file. When you save the window, its contents are copied to the file.

To enter text in your new Fred window, simply type.

Type "Hello, world!" and press the Return key.

Note that when you enter text in the window, a small cross appears in the title bar of the window. This indicates that the file has been modified since it was last saved.

Unlike text entered in the Listener, text entered in a Fred window is not immediately executed. However, you can easily execute the expression you have just typed.

Gettmg Started with MCL - 19 OCT 1996

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