On Friday May 07 2021 14:41:03 J Leslie Turriff wrote: > The only thing I can find for this in Kate is Menu => Tools => > Read-Only Mode. There is >no command-line switch for this, nor can I find a DCOP function that toggles >the setting; >so one would have to first open the document, then use the Tools menu to >disable writing, >which seems quite error-prone. :-( > It is, of course, possible that I've overlooked something.
Yeah, you didn't go into Tools/Configure Shortcuts, and you'll find you can add it to the main toolbar of the "KatePartView" via Tools/Configure Toolbars. I have another protection against accidental changes: deactivate auto-saving. Any Kate-based editor will show you if your document has been modified, and even without auto-saving there's still some sort of backup that will allow you to restore unsaved changes in case of a crash. R
