From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#52569: 29.0.50; Wishlist: There should be a way for packages to handle files without reading them in first Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2021 22:43:20 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87tuf7zksh.fsf@gnus.org> <861r28io75.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87mtkvppot.fsf@gnus.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="40953"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: larsi@gnus.org, 52569@debbugs.gnu.org, juri@linkov.net To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 23 04:47:09 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1n0F4P-000AR8-4Z for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; 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Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n0F0i-0007ws-AL; Wed, 22 Dec 2021 22:43:20 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Kangas on Tue, 21 Dec 2021 22:03:31 -0800) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:222966 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > >> 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. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)