[Suggestion] Add "read-only" mode via command line parameter

[GSD]

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Everything64.exe -ro -instance "EXAMPLE" -config Test-config.ini

When using the "-ro" parameter, Everything would read the appropriate settings/filters/bookmarks etc. files, be they the default ones, the ones implied by "-instance" or the ones manually specified via "-config" et.al., but would keep and modify everything in memory, never writing any changes back to said files. This would also implicitly trigger "-no-db".

This would effectively allow the creation of temporary instances based on already defined instances or the default config as templates. Unless I misunderstand the way Everything instancing works, one could have an unlimited numbar of these temporary instances running at the same time.

Thank you!

[therube]

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	-read-only
		Loads the database in read-only mode.

Note that -read-only deals with updates to the .db itself. There are other ancillary files that do update.

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	-no-db
		Do not save to or load from the "Everything" database file.

[GSD]

There are other ancillary files that do update.

Exactly. The read-only mode I'm suggesting would prevent Everyhing from updating/creating any and all files. And it would implicitly trigger "-no-db".