[Emacs-diffs] Changes to emacs/lispref/positions.texi

[Dave Love]

Index: emacs/lispref/positions.texi
diff -c emacs/lispref/positions.texi:1.33 emacs/lispref/positions.texi:1.34
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--- emacs/lispref/positions.texi        Fri Jan 31 11:28:28 2003
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  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,
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  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