Cliff,

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.

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?

-- Pete

On Jul 19, 2007, at 4:52 PM, Cliff Pruitt wrote:

On Jul 19, 2007, at 1:11 PM, Pete Siemsen wrote:

Cliff, I think it's probably safe to call Emacs and vim "text editors" :-)  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.  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.  It's surprisingly useful.

Pete,
Yeah I know what you're saying & of course Emacs & vim are "text editors". :-)  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.)  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.  I think it's just comparatively infrequent that the need to to completely prevent the buffer from changing at all.  Usually most people have smaller tasks & just "not saving" is sufficient even though that's not your need.

- Cliff


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