Re: 'ed' and 'split' with read-only enabled

On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 07:41:30AM -0700, Gary Johnson wrote:
> On 2013-07-15, Woody Wu wrote:
> > Hi, List
> >
> > How can I open a file in current buffer using 'ed' and 'split' but with
> > read-only enabled in the same time? One reason why I want this is,
> > sometimes when I've already open a file in another vim instance and
> > don't want to close it, then I need to temparaly open the same file in
> > current vim instance to copy something from the file. Then when I do
> > the 'split myfile' in the current buffer, I will alwasy got a warning
> > and prompt me to open it in read-only mode. So I want to directly open
> > it in read-only mode to git rid of the boring red warning message.
>
> If you want to continue to use the :split command, the swapExists
> autocommand event can be used to detect the warning condition and
> the v:swapchoice variable set to specify the desired action, e.g.,
>
> autocmd SwapExists * let v:swapchoice='o'
>
> Or you could just open the file using the :sview command which is
> the same as using :split but also sets 'readonly' in the new buffer.
> See
>
> :help SwapExists
> :help v:swapchoice
> :help :sview
>

Many thanks Gary, these are really tips I am looking for!

> Regards,
> Gary
>
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