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(Skipping Characters): skip-chars-forward now handles char classes.

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@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
@code{skip-chars-forward} except for the direction of motion.

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@end group
@end example

@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
@code{skip-chars-forward} except for the direction of motion.