Re: How to reject visiting a file

[Óscar Fuentes]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Is there a way to error-out when Emacs tries to visit certain file
>> before the file is loaded? I'll like to use a hook that receives the
>> file name and be able to throw an error from there that aborts the
>> operation.
>
> You could define a file-handler for these files.

Yes, that looks like a solution.

For the record, the relevant info is in the Elisp manual:

    Making Certain File Names “Magic”

Thanks.