From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Cc: larsi@gnus.org, 52569@debbugs.gnu.org, juri@linkov.net
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 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1n0F0i-0007ws-AL@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkmmvQX3Uqj_3SXbBsoVU9wPtsu6RrgJtkDWxj1xzgujqKA@mail.gmail.com> (message from Stefan Kangas on Tue, 21 Dec 2021 22:03:31 -0800)
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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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Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
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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
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 [this message]
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