On 24.11.2016 09:52, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
Le 23/11/2016 à 22:20, racoon a écrit :
Only the edit mode of the document is changed, not the read-only state
(the permissions) of the file itself.
Thanks. Then "buffer-toggle-read-only" seems like a misnomer. And why is
this edit mode not saved?
Yes, it is a misnomer. This is why the menu uses a different wording.
There is no reason to save the state.
For example, in release mode, help files are open in view-only mode by
convenience. This has nothing to do with the state of the file itself.
We should probably try to separate the concept of read-only with the
concept of view-only mode. But I know of no program that would change
the read-only mode of a file (except for some hard locking with password).
What is the use case?
I just wanted to understand what is going on.
I filed a related bug report http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/10351. If
you are right then the report is invalid and should be marked as such.
For example, sometimes I open a LyX help file and it is in
view-only-mode. Made sense to me so far since those documents should not
be changed. But when I restart the session which opens the file
automatically again the mode is disabled. I just never got what is going
on and why. I am still wondering a bit.
Daniel
