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bug#37787: [PATCH] Update `special-mode' docstring.


From: Lars Ingebrigtsen
Subject: bug#37787: [PATCH] Update `special-mode' docstring.
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2019 05:37:11 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Hong Xu <hong@topbug.net> writes:

> * lisp/simple.el (special-mode): Add more explanation for
> `special-mode'.

[...]

> +A special major mode is intended to view specially formatted data
> +rather than files.  It is read-only and usually lightweight."

What do you mean by "lightweight"?  My guess is that, on average,
special modes have more code than non-special modes.

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