Time to submit a bug report, I think. The simplest fix would be for the devs to add a command-line switch; then one could create a separate icon for when read-only is desirable (see screenshot). Leslie On 2021-05-08 17:53:35 hw wrote: > On 5/9/21 12:10 AM, J Leslie Turriff wrote: > > On 2021-05-08 16:33:32 hw wrote: > >> On 5/7/21 9:41 PM, J Leslie Turriff wrote: > >>> The only thing I can find for this in Kate is Menu => Tools => > >>> Read-Only Mode. > >> > >> Thank you, that would fix the problem --- if kate only would remember it > >> when restoring the session. (Desktop-mode does such things just fine in > >> emacs.) > > > > That can be configured with Menu => Sessions => Manage... > > Apparently not in version 20.12.2? There isn't really much to manage > there. > > I can start kate and it will load a file, automatically restoring the > session. I can set the buffer of the file to read-only and quit kate. > Next time I start kate, it loads the same file but the buffer is > writable again. Hence the session is not restored. > > I don't see any option in Menu->Sessions->Manage like one to restore the > session fully and not only partly. --
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