[Github-comments] [geany/geany] Hide overwrite button for readonly documents. (PR #3142)

[elextr]

Being able to overwrite the changed file with an unchanged document (ensured because its `read-only`) is also an important use-case, so blanket removal of the capability is not appropriate.

Adding an additional option to "Ignore file changes" per document would be a better solution.  I would think its best for it to be separate from the file changed notification (in `Document` menu for eg) so you can set it at the same time you set read-only and never see the notification.

This is one of many problems with running multiple instances, have you closed them in the wrong order and saved the wrong session yet?

The best solution would be to teach Geany to support multiple edit widgets properly, allowing multiple windows from one instance and fixing the split window problems, but investigations show thats a fair amount of work and somebodys got to do it.

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