Xebar Saram <zeltakc@gmail.com> writes:

> Thanks guys. really appreciate all your help 
>
> im now using view-mode with hooks as suggested. btw whats the
> advantages of viewer-mode over read-only-mode

Mostly that you get more convenient navigation commands. Scrolling and
searching etc don't require control modifiers, and it becomes a bit
easier to move around files.

> best
>
> Z
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 5:46 PM, Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo <
> jorge.a.alfaro@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     Xebar Saram <zeltakc@gmail.com> writes:
>
>     > i keep once and a while screwing up my notes with unintended
>     editing
>     > (erroneous key presses etc) and was wondering if any one knew
>     of a way
>     > to to switch orgmode notes between read-only/editing?
>
>     Hi Xebar. Use C-x C-q. This works for every file, I use it in
>     particular
>     for notes that I do not want to edit.
>
>     It runs the command read-only-mode which changes whether the
>     current
>     buffer is read-only. Actually the command switches the local
>     variable
>     buffer-read-only, so you can use that variable as local for every
>     file
>     that you do not want to edit by default. At the end of those
>     files add:
>
>     #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
>     %%% Local Variables:
>     %%% buffer-read-only: t
>     %%% End:
>     #+END_EXAMPLE
>
>     And every time that you want to edit them just do C-x C-q
>
>     Best,
>
>     Jorge.
>
>