Re: Readonly File, Changable Buffer

[Barry Margolin]

In article <de3ad953.0302271003.37eca6bd@posting.google.com>,
Artist <googleartist@yahoo.com> wrote:
>Hi,
> I like to read a file in emacs buffer and don't want to make any
>change to the file itself, but should not have any problem in changing
>buffer contents.
>Thus I like to dis-associate the buffer from the file.

What I usually do is create a new buffer with C-x b, and then use C-x i to
insert the file into that buffer.  insert-file doesn't associate the file
with the buffer.

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