Re: [Nano-devel] Re: [Info-nano] Nano Feature Request?

[Ken Tyler]

On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Chris Allegretta wrote:

> - In default behavior, check at file open time for writability, and
> throw a message on the statusbar if the file is unwritable.

Sounds good.

> - With a new flag (-y or  --viewify to make it clear what it's doing),
> force the buffer to be read only if we think the file is unwritable,
> and still throw the message on the statusbar.

Not so good, needless complication, can always make the file writable by 
other means anyway. Maybe OK if view mode is made a toggle but not sure 
about the wisdom of that.

Ken