From: Adam Edge <baronedge@airmail.cc>
To: 52569@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#52569: 29.0.50; Wishlist: There should be a way for packages to handle files without reading them in first
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2021 12:04:12 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8ccabcc0-44e7-d8ae-eb80-bc33f7b49bc7@airmail.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tuf7zksh.fsf@gnus.org>
On 12/17/21 11:40, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> Should there be another general mode these things should inherit from,
> like special-mode, but taking care of things like write-file-functions
> (i.e., disallow saving if the mode hasn't implemented a function for
> that)? If so, what should it be called? `really-special-mode' is
> probably too special. Uhm... Something that expresses "the displayed
> contents of this mode doesn't match up the saved contents much"...
> `unloaded-file-mode'? Hm... any ideas?
Just my $.02, but would something related to "file projection" work?
Since things like `sqlite-mode-open-file' "project" the file into a
format that's more usable in Emacs. So my suggestion would be
`projected-file-mode'.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-17 9:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-17 8:40 bug#52569: 29.0.50; Wishlist: There should be a way for packages to handle files without reading them in first Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-17 9:04 ` Adam Edge [this message]
2021-12-19 17:16 ` Juri Linkov
2021-12-19 20:00 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-12-20 9:55 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-20 9:53 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-22 6:03 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-12-23 3:43 ` Richard Stallman
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