Cliff Pruitt wrote:

I'm honestly not putting down the desire for the feature, it's just not an "expected" feature in an editor. Am I making sense?

Not really ... I think a read-only mode should be a standard feature of any serious editor. Just consider past examples e.g. vi, Emacs, Edt, possibly even TECO (but my memory fails me here; digression: TECO is probably the most powerful/dangerous/sparse/delightfully cryptic text (character) editor that's ever existed; Emacs used to be written in it).

On Jul 19, 2007, at 11:30 AM, Andy Armstrong wrote:

I think you've missed the point Cliff. There are all sorts of reasons why you'd want to open a document read-only. Other editors have great r/o support (vim/gvim springs to mind). In general just because you don't want to change the document doesn't mean you don't want to work with it in a familiar user interface will all the syntax highlighting, clever selection modes, folding etc that TextMate brings.

I would agree with Andy here ... I often work with multiple (source) files open and it would highly inefficient/clumsy to use a different application for reading as well as deal with the unexpected consequences of entering stray characters into a source file ... (leading to new but likely less useful permutations of code ...).

Harry.