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Re: Readonly File, Changable Buffer


From: Piet van Oostrum
Subject: Re: Readonly File, Changable Buffer
Date: 27 Feb 2003 21:01:09 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50

>>>>> googleartist@yahoo.com (Artist) (A) wrote:

A> Hi,
A>  I like to read a file in emacs buffer and don't want to make any
A> change to the file itself, but should not have any problem in changing
A> buffer contents.
A> Thus I like to dis-associate the buffer from the file.
A> ex.. I like to sort the data in buffer etc..
A> I looked at dissociated-press but doesn't make much sense.

(setq buffer-file-name nil)
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