diff --git a/doc/nano.texi b/doc/nano.texi
index 7ddfffd4..8b906ffb 100644
--- a/doc/nano.texi
+++ b/doc/nano.texi
@@ -1067,11 +1067,6 @@ Save a file by default in Unix format.  This overrides nano's
 default behavior of saving a file in the format that it had.
 (This option has no effect when you also use @code{set noconvert}.)
 
-@item set view
-Disallow file modification: read-only mode.
-This mode allows the user to open also other files for viewing,
-unless @option{--restricted} is given on the command line.
-
 @anchor{Whitespace}
 @item set whitespace "@var{characters}"
 Set the two characters used to indicate the presence of tabs and
diff --git a/doc/nanorc.5 b/doc/nanorc.5
index e63cfa57..2e4cc897 100644
--- a/doc/nanorc.5
+++ b/doc/nanorc.5
@@ -352,11 +352,6 @@ Save a file by default in Unix format.  This overrides nano's
 default behavior of saving a file in the format that it had.
 (This option has no effect when you also use \fBset noconvert\fR.)
 .TP
-.B set view
-Disallow file modification: read-only mode.
-This mode allows the user to open also other files for viewing,
-unless \fB\-\-restricted\fR is given on the command line.
-.TP
 .BI "set whitespace """ characters """
 Set the two characters used to indicate the presence of tabs and
 spaces.  They must be single-column characters.  The default pair
diff --git a/doc/sample.nanorc.in b/doc/sample.nanorc.in
index 66c73ab8..5935704d 100644
--- a/doc/sample.nanorc.in
+++ b/doc/sample.nanorc.in
@@ -179,9 +179,6 @@
 ## Snip whitespace at the end of lines when justifying or hard-wrapping.
 # set trimblanks
 
-## Disallow file modification.  Why would you want this in an rcfile? ;)
-# set view
-
 ## The two single-column characters used to display the first characters
 ## of tabs and spaces.  187 in ISO 8859-1 (0000BB in Unicode) and 183 in
 ## ISO-8859-1 (0000B7 in Unicode) seem to be good values for these.
diff --git a/src/rcfile.c b/src/rcfile.c
index 81e26bd2..115ba03d 100644
--- a/src/rcfile.c
+++ b/src/rcfile.c
@@ -95,7 +95,6 @@ static const rcoption rcopts[] = {
 	{"suspend", SUSPENDABLE},  /* Deprecated; remove in 2022. */
 	{"suspendable", SUSPENDABLE},
 	{"tempfile", SAVE_ON_EXIT},  /* Deprecated; remove in 2022. */
-	{"view", VIEW_MODE},
 #ifndef NANO_TINY
 	{"afterends", AFTER_ENDS},
 	{"allow_insecure_backup", INSECURE_BACKUP},
diff --git a/syntax/nanorc.nanorc b/syntax/nanorc.nanorc
index 2adf4039..891fd942 100644
--- a/syntax/nanorc.nanorc
+++ b/syntax/nanorc.nanorc
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ comment "#"
 color brightred ".*"
 
 # Keywords
-color brightgreen "^[[:space:]]*(set|unset)[[:space:]]+(afterends|allow_insecure_backup|atblanks|autoindent|backup|boldtext|breaklonglines|casesensitive|constantshow|cutfromcursor|emptyline|historylog|indicator|jumpyscrolling|linenumbers|locking|magic|mouse|multibuffer|noconvert|nohelp|nonewlines|positionlog|preserve|quickblank|rawsequences|rebinddelete|regexp|saveonexit|showcursor|smarthome|softwrap|stateflags|suspendable|tabstospaces|trimblanks|unix|view|wordbounds|zap)\>"
+color brightgreen "^[[:space:]]*(set|unset)[[:space:]]+(afterends|allow_insecure_backup|atblanks|autoindent|backup|boldtext|breaklonglines|casesensitive|constantshow|cutfromcursor|emptyline|historylog|indicator|jumpyscrolling|linenumbers|locking|magic|mouse|multibuffer|noconvert|nohelp|nonewlines|positionlog|preserve|quickblank|rawsequences|rebinddelete|regexp|saveonexit|showcursor|smarthome|softwrap|stateflags|suspendable|tabstospaces|trimblanks|unix|wordbounds|zap)\>"
 color yellow "^[[:space:]]*set[[:space:]]+((error|function|key|number|scroller|selected|status|stripe|title)color)[[:space:]]+(bold,)?(italic,)?(bright|light)?(white|black|red|blue|green|yellow|magenta|cyan|normal|pink|purple|mauve|lagoon|mint|lime|peach|orange|latte)?(,(light)?(white|black|red|blue|green|yellow|magenta|cyan|normal|pink|purple|mauve|lagoon|mint|lime|peach|orange|latte))?\>"
 color brightgreen "^[[:space:]]*set[[:space:]]+(backupdir|brackets|errorcolor|functioncolor|keycolor|matchbrackets|numbercolor|operatingdir|punct|quotestr|scrollercolor|selectedcolor|speller|statuscolor|stripecolor|titlecolor|whitespace|wordchars)[[:space:]]+"
 color brightgreen "^[[:space:]]*set[[:space:]]+(fill[[:space:]]+-?[[:digit:]]+|(guidestripe|tabsize)[[:space:]]+[1-9][0-9]*)\>"