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bug#52569: 29.0.50; Wishlist: There should be a way for packages to hand
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Richard Stallman |
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bug#52569: 29.0.50; Wishlist: There should be a way for packages to handle files without reading them in first |
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Wed, 22 Dec 2021 22:43:20 -0500 |
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> >> 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]
If it is useful to have a parent mode for modes that imitate visiting
a file without really doing so with the normal Emacs visit and save
mechanism, I suggest virtual-visit-mode.
But I suspect this will not prove useful, since we don't have
multiple inheritance for major modes. I tend to think most of
these modes will turn out to have other things as parent modes.
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