Read-Only does not work

Robert Ornelas

When I right-click a tab and “Clear Read-Only Flag”, it works correctly, and I can edit the file. But when I click “Read-Only”, Notepad++ shows the file as “Read Only”, but Windows still shows the file as unlocked. If I close and re-open the file, it is editable (the Read-Only flag is cleared). Is there a setting or permissions that could be off?

I think this is a different issue than the one here: their files are locked for a minute, mine are never set to read-only. I have to go back to windows file explorer to set the file back to Read-Only.

Alan Kilborn

@Robert-Ornelas

Somewhat confusingly, these two features are not designed to be strictly complementary.

Ideally there would be three options:

clear readonly (as it now functions)
make readonly in Notepad++ (as it now functions – only disallows you from editing in the buffer – file system attribute unaffected)
set readonly (currently missing! would set the readonly attribute in the file system as well as disallow editing in N++ buffer)

I currently do the missing function with a Pythonscript.
If there’s interest in this approach, I could publish the script here.

PeterJones

@Robert-Ornelas ,

Related discussion from a few months back: here

@Alan-Kilborn ,

If there’s interest in this approach, I could publish the script here.

Please share it, even if OP is not interested. (There may end up being a link back to the workaround from the usermanual in the future.)

Also, I have created usermanual issue #249 to clarify the usermanual Edit menu description on those two menu commands.

PeterJones

Addenda: Also found another discussion from last year, which shows a macro to clear those flags and PythonScript to clear those flags (with an if-statement to decide if it needs a second) that I developed to clear those flags. But there aren’t the right messages to set the OS Read-Only flag.

PeterJones

@Alan-Kilborn ,

How does this phrasing look for clarifying what the two menu entries actually do?

(@Future-Readers: That link may not exist once the PR has been placed and incorporated into the main repo)

Alan Kilborn

@PeterJones said in Read-Only does not work:

Please share it

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import os
import stat

if notepad.messageBox("You have chosen to make this file READ-ONLY.\n\nDo you really want to do this?",
        "Confirm!", MESSAGEBOXFLAGS.YESNO | MESSAGEBOXFLAGS.DEFBUTTON2 | MESSAGEBOXFLAGS.ICONEXCLAMATION) == MESSAGEBOXFLAGS.RESULTYES:
    # set the read-only attribute on the file:
    os.chmod(notepad.getCurrentFilename(), stat.S_IREAD)
    # at this point, the disk icon on the tab is not grey like a readonly file should be
    notepad.menuCommand(MENUCOMMAND.EDIT_SETREADONLY)
    # now the disk icon is grey

Alan Kilborn

@PeterJones said in Read-Only does not work:

How does this phrasing look for clarifying what the two menu entries actually do?

Phrasing looks good; thanks for your efforts.