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bug#43503: Patch: Improvements regarding commands like find-file-other-t
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#43503: Patch: Improvements regarding commands like find-file-other-tab. |
Date: |
Sat, 19 Sep 2020 16:34:34 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
ej32u@protonmail.com writes:
> 1. Document existing command `ffap-other-tab'.
> 2. Create `find-file-read-only-other-tab' and `ffap-read-only-other-tab'.
> 3. Bind "\C-r" to `find-file-read-only-other-tab', like how "\C-f" is
> bound to `find-file-other-tab'.
> 4. Document `ffap-read-only-other-tab' in misc.texi.
>
> I don't really know the Texinfo format, so I just copied the mark-up used for
> other items.
Look OK to me.
> +(defun find-file-read-only-other-tab (filename &optional wildcards)
> + "Edit file FILENAME, in another tab, but don't allow changes.
> +Like \\[find-file-other-frame] (which see), but creates a new tab.
> +
> +Like C-x t C-f, but marks buffer as read-only.
> +Use C-x C-q to permit editing."
This should probably refer to the functions, not the keystrokes?
But anyway -- I'm not really sure I understand the use case here -- is
opening files in read-only mode a thing that people do a lot? I mean,
we have `C-x C-r', so adding tab-opening versions of that would be
logical, but...
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