On Wed, Nov 04, 2020 at 12:37:00PM +0100, Christopher Dimech wrote: > Can one have two buffers of the same file, next to each other, > but in different modes. When I change one buffer, the major mode > of the other is changing automatically. That's because it most probably is /one/ buffer. The mode is bound to the buffer, not the window, as far as I know. (And, I'm guessing here, you /want/ "them" to be one buffer: changes should occur simultaneously, right? => one buffer). Cheers - t