Re: sqlite3

[Stefan Monnier]

> So perhaps the way to make this workable, we should introduce a new
> thing that short-circuits most of the logic in...  `find-file-noselect'?
> Like a `special-file-alist' (with the same syntax as `auto-mode-alist')
> that calls out to functions to interpret the file and present us with a
> buffer in the correct mode.

Something like that, yes.  Modulo visiting "literally", tho.  And maybe
it might be worthwhile to have a way for those special files to
"fallthrough" to the usual behavior in case something happens.

> The buffer returned shouldn't be visiting the file, I guess?

I think it should.

> Because we don't want to accidentally overwrite the file contents,
> since what we're displaying in the buffer is just a view into the
> file, and not the file itself.

That's the responsibility of the special handler.


        Stefan