Re: [emacs-wiki-discuss] XEmacs and character classes

[Carl Worth]

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 15:40:31 -0500, Vadim Nasardinov wrote:
> 
>   |(defun emacs-wiki-insert-anchor (anchor)
>   |  "Insert an anchor, either around the word at point, or within a tag."
>   |  (skip-chars-forward "[:space:]")
> 
> Since my Emacs doesn't seem to understand the character class
> [:space:],

I'm confused about these threads mentioning the problems with
character classes.

I wouldn't expect "[:space:]" to get provide the desired effect. But
is "[[:space:]]" not supported universally in emacs? That's how I
recall this kind of thing being specified.

-Carl