Xebar Saram <zelt...@gmail.com> writes: > 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
Mostly that you get more convenient navigation commands. Scrolling and searching etc don't require control modifiers, and it becomes a bit easier to move around files. > 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. > >
