Surely there is a way to open Markdown files as view-only?

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So here I am on Nextcloud 25.0.13. The text and files_markdown applications are installed.

Opening an .md file on the browser results in some sort of in-browser text editor opening and, more often than not, causing conflicts with the actual file saved on disk on a client.

I tried this from the text [README](GitHub - nextcloud/text: 📑 Collaborative document editing using Markdown) but it does not make the slightest difference (I have refreshed the browser page):

occ config:app:set text open_read_only_enabled --value=1

For good measure, I have also tried this, even though I’ve no idea what “workspaces” are supposed to be:

occ config:app:set text workspace_available --value=0

And I’ve even disabled files_markdown. Nothing.

The only way to get the editor to stop showing up is this:

occ config:app:set text rich_editing_enabled --value=0

But then the file preview stops rendering as Markdown.

So, how do I actually configure things so that:

  • When I open a text file (.txt) it shows the text as fixed-font plain text
  • When I open a Markdown file (.md) it renders the Markdown
  • At no point does it attempt to offer the user an in-browser editor option
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25.0.13 hasn’t been supported for quite awhile now. The options/features you’re trying to use, are in more current versions, but weren’t in v25.

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Thank you, that’s what I gathered. Unfortunately, upgrading won’t be an easy task but I’ll see what can be done.

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I have managed to upgrade to 30.0.17.

This is the Text app configuration:

{
    "apps": {
        "text": {
            "workspace_available": "0",
            "types": "dav",
            "open_read_only_enabled": "1",
            "installed_version": "4.1.0",
            "enabled": "no"
        }
    }
}

But when I click on a Markdown file, it still opens an editor and more often than not it “saves” the file, causing synchronisation conflicts at best and accidental modifications and data loss at worst.

I do not want collaborative editing, if that’s what the Text app provides. I only want to view Markdown files as rendered views on the browser; nothing else. That used to be the standard behaviour, as I recall.

Can that be achieved at all?

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v30 is end of life. The feature is in >=v31.

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Thanks for your help, got there in the end. Can’t say I’m impressed with a design choice that assigns the highest risk, least likely course of action (collaborative editing) to the simplest interaction (click).

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