From 6d29587b1a00c1f57a562db62107b5e96be1e689 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dave Love Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 16:28:28 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] (Skipping Characters): Multibyte conversion and char classes in skip-chars-forward. --- lispref/positions.texi | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/lispref/positions.texi b/lispref/positions.texi index 0bb3a0ce76f..6b9d10e519d 100644 --- a/lispref/positions.texi +++ b/lispref/positions.texi @@ -745,6 +745,10 @@ of using its normal method. characters. For example, they are often used to skip whitespace. For related functions, see @ref{Motion and Syntax}. +These functions convert the set string to multibyte if the buffer is +multibyte, and they convert it to unibyte if the buffer is unibyte, as +the search functions do (@pxref{Searching and Matching}). + @defun skip-chars-forward character-set &optional limit This function moves point in the current buffer forward, skipping over a given set of characters. It examines the character following point, @@ -786,6 +790,15 @@ comes back" twice. ---------- Buffer: foo ---------- @end group @end example + +Note that char classes are not currently supported in +@var{character-set}; they will be treated as literals. Thus you +cannot use @code{"[:alpha:]"} instead of @code{"a-zA-Z"} to include +non-ASCII letters. A way to skip forward over all letters is: + +@example +(re-search-forward "\\=[[:alpha:]]*" nil t) +@end example @end defun @defun skip-chars-backward character-set &optional limit -- 2.39.5