Subl --read-only flag

[bray]

Does subl have a read-only flag? I would like to be able to open files as read-only from the terminal:

subl --read-only some_file.txt

so I make sure I don’t accidentally change some files after opening them.

As an example, Julia can be configured to use an external command to edit source files (which should not be modified accidentally). I usually set the required environment variable to vim -R, which opens the file as read-only. It would be nice to be able to use sublime-text this way.

[kingkeith]

Making Sublime Text 3 Read Only

There’s not a direct feature that does it, but a plugin can make a view read-only. For example if you use View Package File to open a package file, anything that comes from a sublime-package file is marked as read only as an indication that you can’t modify it. One way to do this would be something like the following plugin: import sublime import sublime_plugin class ToggleReadOnlyCommand(sublime_plugin.ApplicationCommand): def run(self): view = sublime.active_window().active_vie…

combined with

[ST2] subl --command?

The --command argument wants you to specify a single string that contains the command name followed by the arguments (if any are needed), all in one string. A gotcha here is that you may need to do some quoting of things to make the string valid. Depending on where your commands are coming from, you may need to resort to quoting the quote characters so that they slowly get “quoted away” as they pass through the various layers until they eventually get to the command interpreter. For example, d…

should do the trick