Re: Horizontal Tab and Line Feed are non-ASCII according to the ASCII category

[Chris Moore]

On 2/11/07, Chris Moore <address@hidden> wrote:
> Trying to search a buffer for non-ASCII characters using:
>
>   C-u C-s \Ca
>
> finds all the newlines and tabs in the buffer as well as the non-ASCII
> characters, but tabs and newlines are ASCII characters.

However,

 (eval-expression (quote (skip-chars-forward "[:ascii:]")) nil)

seems to know that tab and newline are ASCII characters.