[Feature Request] Option to toggle readonly (at least for current buffer)

[mmahmoudian]

Description of the problem or steps to reproduce

At the moment readonly can be done via either of set readonly on or setlocal readonly on (the latter behaves very weirdly as the [ro] does not show up in the status bar of that buffer. Should I open bug report or is it intended?).

I propose a command to toggle readonly mode for the current buffer. This is extra handy when browsing through a file and we want to protect it from modification, while keep editing in other buffers.

Specifications

I think micro needs yet another Toggle* command (i.e ToggleReadonly) which can be bound to keys. when triggered, toggles the readonly state of the current buffer.

Version: 2.0.13 Commit hash: 68d88b57 Compiled on October 22, 2023 OS: Manjaro Terminal: Alacritty, Konsole, yakuake

[dmaluka]

You can use my lua code from https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/issues/2086#issuecomment-826351299 which adds toggle and togglelocal commands for toggling on/off arbitrary boolean options, and then you can bind your key to command:togglelocal readonly.

set readonly on or setlocal readonly on (the latter behaves very weirdly as the [ro] does not show up in the status bar of that buffer. Should I open bug report or is it intended?).

You probably meant the former behaves very weirdly? setlocal readonly is working as expected for me, but set readonly, which sets readonly globally for all buffers, indeed does not add [ro] to status bars of all those buffers. What's worse, it makes the command bar buffer readonly as well, so we are not able to type commands anymore. Seems worth fixing (although setting readonly globally is probably not very useful anyway). Sorry, ignore this info. This behavior was caused by my own lua stuff. Without that stuff, I see no issues: both setlocal readonly and set readonly behave as expected and [ro] does show up.