Feature Proposal: "Read-only" alternative to Edit

Motivation

Would allow convenient, quick read access for seeing "how things are done" without requiring writability

Description

I often have a template I want to use, be it a full page or a snippet of code from a page that does something I want to do. So I go to that page, click Edit, select, Copy, Cancel, then go to my new page, Edit, annd paste.

I would prefer to select "View Wiki Source" rather than Edit. I dont want to need write access (if I have read access). I onl;y want to view the page, not change it. I don't want to risk changing something. A browser "View Source" shows me HTML, not Wiki format.

I want the moral equivalent of View Source showing Wiki source.

-- VickiBrown - 08 Mar 2005

Impact and Available Solutions

Note: Patch is attached as http://twiki.org/p/pub/Codev/ViewWikiSource/twiki-foo-bar-patch.diff. The patch is against the TWikiAlphaRelease of 15 Feb 2004.

Documentation

If necessary, user documentation of new features introduced by this proposal.

Examples

Example uses of features introduced by proposal.

Implementation

Any comments on how the feature is implemented or could be improved

Discussion:

Hm. Isn't this done by adding ?raw=on to the topicname in the view-URL? See for example this

-- FranzJosefSilli - 08 Mar 2005

.. or even the 'Raw Text" item on the bottom menu bar.

-- AntonAylward - 08 Mar 2005

And isn't really what you want a CloneTopicLinkUnderMore / BetterMore?

-- MartinCleaver - 09 Mar 2005