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2 cent tip: Prevent Vim to accidentally write to opened file

Mulyadi Santosa [mulyadi.santosa at gmail.com]

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 16:46:51 +0700

Hello everybody

Most of us use "view" or "vim -R" in order to execute Vim in readonly mode. However, sometimes we accidentally force writing by issuing ":w!" command.

To prevent this, you can try: $ vim -m <file>

It really stops you from writing the modified buffer back to the backing file. The only exception is when you manually turn write mode on via: :set write

have fun!

NB: Mr. Okopnik, please include this tip in the next LG release if you think this tip is useful for the LG audience. Thanks in advance.

regards,

Mulyadi.