Klaus Bosau wrote:

[...]
> source'ing it by hand, indeed could. This is not what I wanted, but
> changing a buffer's number obviously isn't possible. Is this true?

You cannot change the number of a buffer.  Well, you could wipeout the
buffer and load the file again, that results in a new buffer number.
But that's probably not what you want.

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