Subject: bug#52569: 29.0.50; Wishlist: There should be a way for packages to handle files without reading them in first

From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2021 22:03:31 -0800

Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]> writes:

>> 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]