On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 at 16:15, <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 9/12/20 9:00 PM, Lex Trotman wrote: > > /With the styling and the status bar, they just show the document read > > only setting so will not show anything if a system file is loaded, //*or > > are you saying they don't work if you set the document read only > > in the UI?*/ > > > > Cheers > > Lex > Meant to get back sooner - covid-19 & other stuff going on. > In answer to your question (highlighted), yes, uh no, uh... maybe? > > I want Geany to automatically show if a file was opened w/o correct > permissions to edit & save in same path, the way many editors do. > In Geany, you have to *manually* go into a menu to mark it RO. If you > opened a file w/o correct permissions, it is read only, as far as > editing & saving it to the same location.
So if somebody provides the code (which works on Windows and Linux and OSX) to calculate if a file can be written to its original location, not forgetting such things as SElinux and ACLs on Linux and Windows, and how it will be used _without_ forcing the buffer to be read-only, then we can look at it. As I have said before just because the original location is not writable does not mean a buffer should be readonly, a modified buffer can always be saved elsewhere, and that capability is required for the editing of Geany's own configuration settings. > > Apparently Geany doesn't have prefs to automatically change tab style > for files opened as RO? It does, and it is documented https://www.geany.org/manual/current/index.html#customizing-geany-s-appearance-using-gtk-3-css. > > Many editors allow preferences to change tab BG and / or font color for > files opened as RO. The editors that offer such prefs, probably do it > for a reason. Whatever their reason is, it is irrelevant to Geany unless its applicability is documented. Cheers Lex > Thanks. > > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users
