:view with split first?

I regularly find myself doing the following sequence:

:vnew
:view some_readonly_file.txt

in order to avoid the "a swap-file already exists" or "this file
is RO" messages.

While I know I can create a ":View" command to do this for me, I
was wondering if there was something built-in I missed. Perhaps
like the ":vert" prefix, if there was a "and put the following
results in a new window" prefix that I missed or a flag for
":vsp" to specify that the file should be opened RO? I'd expect
it to looks something like

:vnew ++readonly some_readonly_file.txt
:vert view some_readonly_file.txt

For now, I just have

:command -nargs=1 -complete=file Vsp vnew|view <args>

which does the job. I just felt like I was missing something
that Vim might provide.

-tim

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