<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Cliff,<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Ok, I see your point. Perhaps a readonly mode isn't a feature found in many editors, but it con be useful the reasons I've described.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I couldn't find anything about such a feature in the TextMate docs or the book, so I assume that TextMate doesn't have the feature. Is this email posted to this list sufficient to request it as a future enhancement?<DIV><DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>-- Pete</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jul 19, 2007, at 4:52 PM, Cliff Pruitt wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">On Jul 19, 2007, at 1:11 PM, Pete Siemsen wrote:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Cliff, I think it's probably safe to call Emacs and vim "text editors" :-)<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>It's very useful to view, seach and navigate a huge config file with a text editor, and I prefer to browse readonly files with the same tool that I use to edit files.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>A few days ago I wrote a TextMate language grammar for Juniper router configs, so now TextMate does syntax highlighting and folding of these config files.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>It's surprisingly useful.</DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Pete,</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Yeah I know what you're saying & of course Emacs & vim are "text editors". :-)<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>But honestly how many "editors" of any kind have a read-only mode? (This is where someone emails me a list of like 3,000 read-only editors & I look like a jerk... happens every time.)<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>It's just a non-standard feature both happen to have. I don't discount that it's useful, I just wanted to pose the question that maybe something else would work.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>I think it's just comparatively infrequent that the need to to completely prevent the buffer from changing at all.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Usually most people have smaller tasks & just "not saving" is sufficient even though that's not your need.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">- Cliff</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">______________________________________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">For new threads USE THIS: <A href="mailto:textmate@lists.macromates.com">textmate@lists.macromates.com</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">(threading gets destroyed and the universe will collapse if you don't)</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://lists.macromates.com/mailman/listinfo/textmate">http://lists.macromates.com/mailman/listinfo/textmate</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>