Thanks guys. really appreciate all your help

im now using view-mode with hooks as suggested. btw whats the advantages of
viewer-mode over read-only-mode

best

Z


On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 5:46 PM, Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo <
jorge.a.alfaro@gmail.com> wrote:

> Xebar Saram <zeltakc@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > i keep once and a while screwing up my notes with unintended editing
> > (erroneous key presses etc) and was wondering if any one knew of a way
> > to to switch orgmode notes between read-only/editing?
>
> Hi Xebar. Use C-x C-q. This works for every file, I use it in particular
> for notes that I do not want to edit.
>
> It runs the command read-only-mode which changes whether the current
> buffer is read-only. Actually the command switches the local variable
> buffer-read-only, so you can use that variable as local for every file
> that you do not want to edit by default. At the end of those files add:
>
> #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
> %%% Local Variables:
> %%% buffer-read-only: t
> %%% End:
> #+END_EXAMPLE
>
> And every time that you want to edit them just do C-x C-q
>
> Best,
>
> Jorge.
>
>
>