From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Neal Becker Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: problems with 'view' mode Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 08:11:54 -0400 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1332159150 23641 80.91.229.3 (19 Mar 2012 12:12:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 12:12:30 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 19 13:12:29 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S9bRo-0004PL-02 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Mar 2012 13:12:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48527 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S9bRn-0004EJ-56 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Mar 2012 08:12:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:38585) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S9bRb-0004Di-Hl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Mar 2012 08:12:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S9bRZ-0006GM-OG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Mar 2012 08:12:11 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:52746) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S9bRZ-0006G9-7L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Mar 2012 08:12:09 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S9bRW-0004Bd-7a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Mar 2012 13:12:06 +0100 Original-Received: from 139.85.237.19 ([139.85.237.19]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 19 Mar 2012 13:12:06 +0100 Original-Received: from ndbecker2 by 139.85.237.19 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 19 Mar 2012 13:12:06 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 6 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 139.85.237.19 User-Agent: KNode/4.8.1 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:149127 Archived-At: I often use 'view' mode to look at files in a read-only mode. Typically, this is using dired, and then hitting 'v'. It seems rather broken. Some keys in view-mode are bound to special functions, but other keys just go ahead and self- insert (so it's not really read-only). Maybe what I really want is a key binding for dired that opens files read-only.