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I configured Emacs (28.1) to open an index file (index.org) at startup. Now I would like this file to be opened in view-mode. I tried

(setq initial-buffer-choice "~/PATH/index.org")
(view-mode t)

but index.org doesn't open in view-mode. How could I achieve this?

Drew
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You need to turn view-mode on in the buffer of index.org. What you are doing is turning it on in whatever buffer is current when the view-mode call is evaluated. Try

(setq initial-buffer-choice "~/PATH/index.org")
(with-current-buffer (find-file-noselect "~/PATH/index.org")
   (view-mode t))
NickD
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If you aren't comfortable with emacs-lisp, you can add the following three lines to the very bottom of your ~/PATH/index.org, and save it. Next time when you open that file in Emacs, it will be read-only.

# Local Variables:
# eval: (view-mode 1)
# End:

If you don't want to close Emacs, you can try re-visiting the file in same session with M-x revert-buffer RET. Now try editing the file, and see what happens.

The above suggestion will work only for org files.

You can add the above 3 lines with

  1. M-x add-file-local-variable <return> eval <return> ( view-mode SPC 1) <return>
  2. C-x C-s
  3. C-x C-v <return>

This will add the 3 lines that I suggested previously. Remember to save the file.

Above 3 steps will work for any file.