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Pascal Bourguignon wrote:
> saneman <ddd@sdf.com> writes:
> 
>> I have redefined C-d to comment/uncomment. But when I press delete it
>> also inserts a comment (% i latex mode). Is it possible to assign
>> something to the key 'd' without change 'delete'?
>>
>> I have this in my .emacs file:
>>
>>
>> (global-set-key "\C-d" 'comment-dwim)
>> (define-key function-key-map [delete] [deletechar])
>> But delete still inserts a comment instead of deleting a character.
> 
> That's strange.   The doc of define-key doesn't mention vectors for
> the def argument.  
> 
> I would just write:
> 
>     (global-set-key (kbd "C-d") 'comment-dwim)
> 
> This shouldn't change the binding of the delete key.
> Note that (string= "\C-d" "C-d").
> 
> 

I have now tried:

(global-set-key (kbd "C-d") 'comment-dwim)

instead but that also changes the delete key. Could it be a bug in 
emacs? I am using a danish keyboard.