On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 at 16:15, bendov@gmx.com wrote:
On 9/12/20 9:00 PM, Lex Trotman wrote:
/With the styling and the status bar, they just show the document read only setting so will not show anything if a system file is loaded, //*or are you saying they don't work if you set the document read only in the UI?*/
Cheers Lex
Meant to get back sooner - covid-19 & other stuff going on. In answer to your question (highlighted), yes, uh no, uh... maybe?
I want Geany to automatically show if a file was opened w/o correct permissions to edit & save in same path, the way many editors do. In Geany, you have to *manually* go into a menu to mark it RO. If you opened a file w/o correct permissions, it is read only, as far as editing & saving it to the same location.
So if somebody provides the code (which works on Windows and Linux and OSX) to calculate if a file can be written to its original location, not forgetting such things as SElinux and ACLs on Linux and Windows, and how it will be used _without_ forcing the buffer to be read-only, then we can look at it.
As I have said before just because the original location is not writable does not mean a buffer should be readonly, a modified buffer can always be saved elsewhere, and that capability is required for the editing of Geany's own configuration settings.
Apparently Geany doesn't have prefs to automatically change tab style for files opened as RO?
It does, and it is documented https://www.geany.org/manual/current/index.html#customizing-geany-s-appearan....
Many editors allow preferences to change tab BG and / or font color for files opened as RO. The editors that offer such prefs, probably do it for a reason.
Whatever their reason is, it is irrelevant to Geany unless its applicability is documented.
Cheers Lex
Thanks.
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