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bug#29412: 27.0.50; dired-toggle-read-only should (at some point!) check


From: Juri Linkov
Subject: bug#29412: 27.0.50; dired-toggle-read-only should (at some point!) check that the direcory is writeable
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2020 10:32:53 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

>> I've now made `C-c C-q' signal an error if the directory isn't writable
>> in Emacs 28.
>
> I don't feel strongly about this, but I wonder whether
> that's the right thing to do.  We do NOT do that for
> files, for example.

OTOH, displaying a warning might go unnoticed by the user.

Then maybe better would be to ask a y-or-n question
whether the user still wants to edit the unwritable buffer.





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