Thanks guys. really appreciate all your help im now using view-mode with hooks as suggested. btw whats the advantages of viewer-mode over read-only-mode
best Z On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 5:46 PM, Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo < jorge.a.alf...@gmail.com> wrote: > Xebar Saram <zelt...@gmail.com> writes: > > > i keep once and a while screwing up my notes with unintended editing > > (erroneous key presses etc) and was wondering if any one knew of a way > > to to switch orgmode notes between read-only/editing? > > Hi Xebar. Use C-x C-q. This works for every file, I use it in particular > for notes that I do not want to edit. > > It runs the command read-only-mode which changes whether the current > buffer is read-only. Actually the command switches the local variable > buffer-read-only, so you can use that variable as local for every file > that you do not want to edit by default. At the end of those files add: > > #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE > %%% Local Variables: > %%% buffer-read-only: t > %%% End: > #+END_EXAMPLE > > And every time that you want to edit them just do C-x C-q > > Best, > > Jorge. > > >
