On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 12:09 AM, Chandra Amarasingham <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am a fairly novice user of vim.  One thing I worry about is accidentally
> changing something on the file without being aware of it by accidental
> keystrokes, etc.
>

You can also issue:
:set readonly

To prevent you from saving the file if you have changed it.

HTH,
David

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