How to open file readonly from inside vim ?

2006-06-26 Thread Yakov Lerner

There is a file x that is opened in another vim, and
.x.swp file exists.

I have another  instance of vim that has many buffers already
open. I want to open file x in this vim readonly,
without the  'E325 Found swapfile' dialog. (like vim -R would,
but without starting new vim)

How do I do it  ? I tried ':e +set\ ro x' but it sort of
doesn't work. It still brings up the 'Found swapfile'
dialog (and then opens file readonly). So, How to
open file readonly from inside vim ?

Yakov


Re: How to open file readonly from inside vim ?

2006-06-26 Thread A.J.Mechelynck

Yakov Lerner wrote:

There is a file x that is opened in another vim, and
.x.swp file exists.

I have another  instance of vim that has many buffers already
open. I want to open file x in this vim readonly,
without the  'E325 Found swapfile' dialog. (like vim -R would,
but without starting new vim)

How do I do it  ? I tried ':e +set\ ro x' but it sort of
doesn't work. It still brings up the 'Found swapfile'
dialog (and then opens file readonly). So, How to
open file readonly from inside vim ?

Yakov




Use
:view foobar.ext
or
:sview foobar.ext

(instead of :edit or :new/:split respectively).


HTH,
Tony.