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Mulyadi Santosa [mulyadi.santosa at gmail.com]
Hello everybody
Most of us use "view" or "vim -R" in order to execute Vim in readonly mode. However, sometimes we accidentally force writing by issuing ":w!" command.
To prevent this, you can try: $ vim -m <file>
It really stops you from writing the modified buffer back to the backing file. The only exception is when you manually turn write mode on via: :set write
have fun!
NB: Mr. Okopnik, please include this tip in the next LG release if you think this tip is useful for the LG audience. Thanks in advance.
regards,
Mulyadi.
Ben Okopnik [ben at linuxgazette.net]
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 04:46:51PM +0700, Mulyadi Santosa wrote:
> Hello everybody > > Most of us use "view" or "vim -R" in order to execute Vim in > readonly mode. However, sometimes we accidentally force writing by > issuing ":w!" command. > > To prevent this, you can try: > $ vim -m <file> > > It really stops you from writing the modified buffer back to the > backing file. The only exception is when you manually turn write mode on > via: > :set write > > have fun! > > NB: Mr. Okopnik, please include this tip in the next LG release if you > think this tip is useful for the LG audience. Thanks in advance.
That's already done - and you did it yourself. 
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