I want some files to be read-only when I open them. Maybe using some kind of header would work?
Parsing the extension would work too but I want to apply to, for example, some ".txt" files so is not very good to apply this rule to all "txt" files.
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In addition to what @Nick says (which is the answer), can you not change the permissions of those files, themselves? If the file is read-only for the file system then the buffer is read-only when you visit it.– DrewCommented Oct 4, 2017 at 18:18
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Tanks! I didin't think of that because I just want the readonly so I don't change a file when I open it by mistake. Sometimes I'd like to modify it and Nick's solution is more flexible. But it's not a bad idea!– hhaammCommented Oct 9, 2017 at 21:35
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If you can add a header to your files, the following should work (it should be the first line in the file):
-*- buffer-read-only: t -*-
If there is a comment convention (e.g. '# ' for a shell script), you should put it in a comment:
# -*- buffer-read-only: t -*-
For shell scripts that must have a hash-bang line as the first line, you can put the header above on line 2: that's the only exception to the rule AFAIK.
For more details, see File Variables which also describes a method to specify file local variables at the end of a file.
