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(Björn Lindström) writes:

> To just change to text mode, M-x text-mode. However, if you're in a
> scratch buffer and want that bound to a text file, it's probably more
> comfortable to just C-x C-w somefile.txt

  Or maybe:

    (setq default-major-mode 'text-mode)

and:

    C-x b tmp <RET> y <...EDITING...> C-x h M-w C-x k <RET>

--drkm