Re: How not to share `local-set-key' with all other buffers in the same major mode?

[Skip Montanaro]

I would like to use editing modes as temporary view modes where I
> would like to set a key like "q" or "i" temporarily, like this for
> example:
>
> (local-set-key "q" 'quit-window)
>
> And I use it in read only mode.
>

Would the minor view-mode do what you want?

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/View-Mode.html

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