Decouple C-d and delete, so that the former does not delete the region.

* lisp/bindings.el (global-map): Bind C-d to delete-char and deletechar
to delete-forward-char.

* lisp/simple.el (normal-erase-is-backspace-mode): Remap delete to
deletechar, and hence delete-forward-char.

* src/cmds.c (Fdelete_char): Doc fix.

2 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/ChangeLog b/src/ChangeLog
index c9d0e80c12f..d09fab7ca85 100644
--- a/src/ChangeLog
+++ b/src/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2010-10-19  Chong Yidong  <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
+
+        * cmds.c (Fdelete_char): Doc fix.
+
 2010-10-19  Ken Brown  <kbrown@cornell.edu>
 
         * s/cygwin.h (SIGNALS_VIA_CHARACTERS): New define (bug#7225).
diff --git a/src/cmds.c b/src/cmds.c
index e12d7c370d9..19eca771941 100644
--- a/src/cmds.c
+++ b/src/cmds.c
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ Optional second arg KILLFLAG non-nil means kill instead (save in kill ring).
 Interactively, N is the prefix arg, and KILLFLAG is set if
 N was explicitly specified.
 
-The command `delete-forward' is preferable for interactive use.  */)
+The command `delete-forward-char' is preferable for interactive use.  */)
   (Lisp_Object n, Lisp_Object killflag)
 {
   EMACS_INT pos;