Re: Proposal: emacsclient --readonly

[wgreenhouse-sGOZH3hwPm2sTnJN9+BGXg@public.gmane.org (W. Greenhouse)]

michael-ntT3PcgARwzQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org writes:

> As distraction to our toddler temper-tantrum, I'd like to propose a
> new feature for emacsclient.
>
> I use emacsclient to open files frequently and I generally immediately
> do M-x view-mode once the frame pops up.  I'd like to be able to open
> the file directly in view-mode when I invoke emacsclient.
>
> I'd be interested in any suggestions people have on how to accomplish
> this using emacsclient currently.  In the absence of any ideas, I'd like
> to propose the folowing patch which adds a `--readonly,-r' option to
> emacsclient (and server.el) (I had originally called it --view-mode,-v but
> getopt_long_only complained that it was ambiguous if abbreviated.)
>
> I'm eager to hear any suggestions people might have to do this without
> changing emacsclient.  Or maybe this is a reason to add a more generic
> feature to emacsclient to enable/disable modes after a file is opened.
>
>
>
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> Michael R. Mauger  -  FSF Member #4247  -  Emacs sql.el Maintainer

Without changing emacsclient, my approach would be the slightly
unintuitive/user-hostile

emacsclient --eval '(view-file "path/to/file")'

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Regards,
WGG