It's important to recognize that Vim makes a distinction between readonly and nomodifiable options. Setting readonly will prevent you from saving the buffer unless you type ":w!" (with the exclamation point). Setting nomodifiable, on the other hand, will prevent you from even entering insert mode or modifying the buffer itself in any way.
You can open a file with readonly set by using the :view command, but it will still be modifiable unless you explicitly :set nomodifiable. As far as opening a file with nomodifiable already set, I'm not aware of any command that does that (though that doesn't mean there isn't one). -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
