Re: [Nano-devel] [PATCH] options: let view mode activate "multibuffer" to allow viewing more files

[David Ramsey]

Benno Schulenberg:
> This seems hardly necessary.  In my eyes, the --view option is meant
> to be used by the user himself or herself, to prevent accidental
> modification while looking around in a file.  If there are scripts
> that show a file to the user by using nano in view mode, and they did
> not want to allow the user to view other files, those scripts must
> have used either --ignorercfiles or --restricted (or both, of course).
> But --ignorercfiles would prevent any customization by the user,
> reducing the usefulness of nano as a viewer.  So most likely those
> scripts will use --restricted and they won't need to change anything.

Ideally, yes.  But a change in default behavior needs to be documented,
just in case.

> But if you wish to propose a small addition to the description of
> --view and 'set view'...

Yes.  Something like the attached patch.

0001-docs-document-that-view-mode-enables-multibuffer-mod.patch
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