On 5/7/21 9:54 PM, rhkramer@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Friday, May 07, 2021 03:41:03 PM 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.
Another option, that might or might not be acceptable, would be to take away
write permission on the underlying file -- you would still be able to edit the
buffer, but you would not be able to save those changes.
I'm using this to protect files from being accidentially being edited
(like when kwin yet again fails to do focus follows mouse and I can't
figure out what happened after I started typing). Such files usually
contain some kind of notes, like how to create a selinux module.
So I sometimes do want to edit these files to update them as I keep
learning. Having to change the very file permissions for this would
work, though it would be rather awkward.
