What's new in Read-only Indicator 0.9

• Adds Clickable Status Bar indicator
• Adds Auto-refresh behavior for changes outside Atom

Support

Read-only Indicator is an open source extension created for Atom. While being free and open source, if you find it useful, please consider supporting it.

Read-only Indicator

Following Atom archiving in December 15, 2022, this package will be archived as well. Learn more in their official announcement

It adds an area in the status bar, indicating if the file is read-only or writeable. It will be automatically updated, every time you open any file.

Screenshots

The indicator is automatically updated. You don't need to do anything.

File Access	Status Bar Preview
Read-only
Writeable

Available Settings

• Define the position where the Status Bar indicator is located

    "read-only-indicator":
      position: "left" # or "right"

• Define how much information is displayed in the Status Bar indicator

    "read-only-indicator":
      showIcon: true # or false

• Define if the Status Bar indicator should automatically be updated when the file is changed outside Atom

    "read-only-indicator":
      autorefresh: true # or false

• Define if the Status Bar indicator should accept clicks to change the file access

    "read-only-indicator":
      clicktochangerw: true # or false

Contributors

Special thanks to the people that have contributed to the project:

• (@jmtoniolo) - Click on status bar to change file access PR #10)
• (@jmtoniolo) - Auto-refresh status bar on external file change PR #10)

License

MIT © Alessandro Fragnani