If you try to run clone-buffer on a file-visiting buffer, it won't
happen, and you get the error message "Cannot clone a file-visiting
buffer."

I think I understand why -- if you clone a file-visiting buffer, both
buffers are visiting the same file -- and this is more a situation for
an indirect buffer. Is this correct?

But what about situations where you want the entire text of the file-
visiting buffer, the same major mode, but not have it be visiting a
file? Is there any easier way to do this other than copying the entire
buffer and starting from scratch?

I poked around in the the internals of clone-buffer, and it seems to
be happy with copying file-visiting buffers if I turn off the file-
visiting checks AND disable copying local variables. Is this safe? Are
there any reason why I might NOT want to do this?

below is my modified clone-buffer code, with mooning internal
commentary on my suspicious changes:

xraysmalevich@gmail.com wrote:

Why don't you want the new buffer to be visiting a (different/temporary)
file? Depending on that, this might suit you:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2007-11/msg00678.html

On Sep 4, 9:45 pm, Kevin Rodgers gmail.com> wrote: