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From: john@xanth.UUCP (John Owens)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: find-file-read-only-other-window
Message-ID: <1468@xanth.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 1-Jul-87 16:53:08 EDT
Article-I.D.: xanth.1468
Posted: Wed Jul  1 16:53:08 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 3-Jul-87 01:49:52 EDT
Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk Va.
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The most frustrating lack of orthogonality in GNU Emacs for me has been the
lack of a combination of find-file-read-only and find-file-other window.
So - a simple elisp function to share with you all:

  (defun find-file-read-only-other-window (filename)
    "Like find-file-read-only, but does it in another window."
    (interactive "FFind file read-only in other window: ")
    (switch-to-buffer-other-window (find-file-noselect filename))
    (setq buffer-read-only t))

  (global-set-key "\^x4\^r" 'find-file-read-only-other-window)

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