Hi, I've searched for this for some time now but it's either not available or I have to hone my search skills a lot.
Most of the time I have multiple xterms opened, running vim sessions within the same project. The files are tagged and I'm using :ta and :tj a lot. It happens often that I'm about to jump to a tagged function in a file which I have opened in another xterm. What happens is that the swap file is found and the "Swap file [...] already exists" message is printed, giving the usual choice which has to be confirmed. The more often this happens, the more annoying it is. What I usually want is to open the file readonly, because I just want to have a look into that function. The actual editing of this file is done in the other vim window. I can't find a way to accomplish this. I know there's the shortmess=A option, but it avoids the attention message in a dangerous way: It doesn't print *any* warning and it allows to edit the file. If I really edit the file at this point, because I miss the fact that this is the same file as in the other xterm session, the first warning appears in the second session only when trying to write back the changes made there. So, the bottom line is, I'm looking for is a way to open a file automatically in r/o mode if I'm going to jump to a tag in that file and the file is opened in another session. Is that possible already? If not, would it make sense to add a setting which enables this behaviour? Thanks in advance, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Cygwin Project Co-Leader Red Hat
