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From: Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com>
To: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
Cc: Help GNU Emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How not to share `local-set-key' with all other buffers in the same major mode?
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2021 07:44:09 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANc-5Uxzg5Khy7o_Q9-zXP2s8WF44w98c8yk-bCfXxp=OK4YWQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <courier.000000006066D6B2.00001C01@stw1.rcdrun.com>

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

Skip

>


  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-02 12:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-02  8:32 How not to share `local-set-key' with all other buffers in the same major mode? Jean Louis
2021-04-02 12:44 ` Skip Montanaro [this message]
2021-04-02 12:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-02 16:16   ` Jean Louis

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