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I wish to make Vim open every file in read-only mode.

My use case is that I use Vim as both my editor and a gdb frontend via the Pyclewn plugin. I typically have one instance of Vim open for editing and another for debugging. I wish that the debugging instance would always open source files in read-only mode so that I do not get the ".swp file already exists" prompt, or that I accidentally edit a file without meaning to.

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There's a special command for this: view FILENAME

Or: vim -R FILENAME

For other cool things, see the man page for vim(1): man 1 vim

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  • Oh, right, of course. I just didn't think to start it as view instead of vim ;) .
    – Moshev
    Mar 11, 2016 at 18:15

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