bug#52569: 29.0.50; Wishlist: There should be a way for packages to handle files without reading them in first

[Stefan Kangas]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

>> non-persistent-file-mode, or transient-file-mode, or ephemeral-mode...
>
> Hm...  if `view-mode' wasn't taken already, perhaps that would have been
> an option.

Here are some additional ideas:

    special-display-mode
    special-file-mode
    no-load-mode
    no-visit-mode    [if it won't be visiting]