On 2021-05-08 04:38:01 René J.V. Bertin wrote: > On Friday May 07 2021 14:41:03 J Leslie Turriff wrote: > > The only thing I can find for this in Kate is Menu => Tools => Read-Only > > Mode. There is no command-line switch for this, nor can I find a DCOP > > function that toggles the setting; so one would have to first open the > > document, then use the Tools menu to disable writing, which seems quite > > error-prone. :-( > > It is, of course, possible that I've overlooked something. > > Yeah, you didn't go into Tools/Configure Shortcuts, and you'll find you can > add it to the main toolbar of the "KatePartView" via Tools/Configure > Toolbars. Ah; that must have been added in KDE4 or Plasma; it's not present in my TDE version. > > I have another protection against accidental changes: deactivate > auto-saving. Any Kate-based editor will show you if your document has been > modified, and even without auto-saving there's still some sort of backup > that will allow you to restore unsaved changes in case of a crash. > > R Leslie --