On 2012-11-12, Uday Reddy <[email protected]> wrote: > I have now modified `vm-quit' in the trunk to silently discard any changes > to the folder ("meta-data") if the folder is read-only. > > There are a couple of things about this that worry me. > > 1. If you do vm-toggle-read-only for some reason or other, you might put the > folder in read-only mode. If you forget that you have done so and quit the > folder, the changes that were made before putting it in read-only mode would > be lost. So, vm-toggle-read-only has now become a mildly unsafe operation.
This worries me too. I don't think one should confuse modification and read-only. VM is an Emacs package, and people know how read-only and modification interact in Emacs - it should be the same in VM. I think I'll stick with my approach.
