View/readonly mode for text/markdown even for remote files

[l-mb]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I create notes and text files via both the web frontend and using my text editor in the synced directories. When I want to view them on my mobile device, they are always opened in edit mode. This easily creates unwanted modifications, but worse, a conflict between multiple collaborators or even multiple of my own devices, unnecessarily.

Describe the solution you'd like

I want the option to open files in a view-only/read-only mode, which shows markdown formatting and so on, but does not modify the file in any way.

I would like this to be the default (or at least an option to make it the default) when opening a file, since I more often want to view files on the go rather than edit them.

The file should automatically refresh.

This is what happens when the file has been downloaded to the local device, so it might be an easy fix?

Describe alternatives you've considered

While better conflict resolution and merging for text files would also be ways that would alleviate the situation and be beneficial (similar to a lightweight etherpad), the option to only view files seems fairly straightforward.

[svenb1234]

If you download the file from within the android client and open it afterwards, it does open in "read mode". Maybe that's a workaround.

[l-mb]

If you download the file from within the android client and open it afterwards, it does open in "read mode". Maybe that's a workaround.

Yes, I noted this in my original post. I would like (at least the option of) this to happen even for files that are still remote and not local.