Re: [Nano-devel] [PATCH] options: let view mode activate "multibuffer" to allow viewing more files

[Benno Schulenberg]

Op 17-10-18 om 21:16 schreef David Ramsey:
> This is a good idea.  However, the manual and info pages should also
> document this new "feature" of view mode.

This seems hardly necessary.  In my eyes, the --view option is meant
to be used by the user himself or herself, to prevent accidental
modification while looking around in a file.  If there are scripts
that show a file to the user by using nano in view mode, and they
did not want to allow the user to view other files, those scripts
must have used either --ignorercfiles or --restricted (or both, of
course).  But --ignorercfiles would prevent any customization by the
user, reducing the usefulness of nano as a viewer.  So most likely
those scripts will use --restricted and they won't need to change
anything.

But if you wish to propose a small addition to the description of
--view and 'set view'...

Benno

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