2004-11-20 Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
+ * positions.texi (Skipping Characters): skip-chars-forward
+ now handles char classes.
+
* intro.texi (Printing Notation): Avoid confusion of `print'
when explaining @print.
@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-@acronym{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
This function moves point backward, skipping characters that match
@var{character-set}, until @var{limit}. It is just like