Re: org-store-link modifies readonly-buffer

[Ihor Radchenko]

Tennyson Bardwell <tennysontaylorbardwell@gmail.com> writes:

> It seems as though =org-store-link= does not respect the "readonly" part of
> read-only buffers. I noticed it myself[1], found a bug report on
> stackexchange[2], and did not see the appropriate check in the code[3].
>
> If this is unintended, I would be happy to try to submit a PR. I have not
> yet contributed to any emacs ecosystem, so I would be slow & bad at this,
> but happy to try.

Confirmed.
This is intended, with the main purpose of not barfing with error when
users call `org-store-link' in read-only *Org goto* indirect buffers.

More generally, Org mode handling of read-only state is rather
inconsistent. We have a number of places that do ignore read-only and a
number of places that don't.

I do believe that the right things to do is respecting read-only state
with an exception to *Org goto* buffers (or maybe other buffers that we
should explicitly mark). But doing so might break user workflows.
We need to carefully study various instances where Org mode ignores
read-only state to decide what is the best course of action.

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