Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!ucla-cs!zen!ucbvax!ICST-CMR.ARPA!rbj
From: rbj@ICST-CMR.ARPA (Root Boy Jim)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re:  find-file-read-only-other-window
Message-ID: <8707061905.AA01444@icst-cmr.arpa.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 6-Jul-87 15:05:22 EDT
Article-I.D.: icst-cmr.8707061905.AA01444
Posted: Mon Jul  6 15:05:22 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 8-Jul-87 02:45:54 EDT
Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Distribution: world
Organization: The ARPA Internet
Lines: 29

? 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:

Given the `view' package, why would you want to do a
`find-file-read-only-ANYWHERE'?

I would restate your case as `I want "view-file-other-window"'.

Now might be a good time to complain about a few misfeatures to view.
First, the help is limited. I often have to switch windows to describe
variables and functions. Also, ^A, ^B, ^E, and ^F don't work. Why?
They seem like reasonably innocuous things to do.

Further, some integration of the movement commands should be made in
the view/dired/buffer-menu/edit-options/whatever modes. Most are
relatively consistent, but why doesn't `p' map to ^P and `n' map to ^N
in buffer menu mode? 
 
? -- 
? John Owens		Old Dominion University - Norfolk, Virginia, USA
? john@ODU.EDU		old arpa: john%odu.edu@RELAY.CS.NET
? +1 804 440 4529		old uucp: {seismo,harvard,sun,hoptoad}!xanth!john
? 

	(Root Boy) Jim Cottrell	
	National Bureau of Standards
	Flamer's Hotline: (301) 975-5688
I want to kill everyone here with a cute colorful Hydrogen Bomb!!