Nicolas Aggelidis wrote: > sometimes i open some files to view their contents, in the > same time i have open some other files that i edit... > > because alot of times the names are very similar, is there > any way to mark a file temporarily {for the session} as readonly?
If you are opening from within Vim (perhaps ':e file.txt' or ':edit file.txt'), then you could use :view instead (':view file.txt'). Using ':help :view' shows that it is the same as :edit but it sets the 'readonly' option which you can also set: :set readonly Readonly allows you to change, but gives a warning. You have to use :w! to write. Use ':set nomodifiable' to prevent changes. John --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---