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(Skipping Characters): Multibyte conversion and char classes in skip-chars-forward.

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  The following two functions move point over a specified set of
characters.  For example, they are often used to skip whitespace.  For
related functions, see @ref{Motion and Syntax}.

@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,
then advances point if the character matches @var{character-set}.  This
continues until it reaches a character that does not match.  The

---------- Buffer: foo ----------
I read "The cat in the hat@point{}
comes back" twice.
---------- Buffer: foo ----------
@end group
@end example
@end defun

@defun skip-chars-backward character-set &optional limit
This function moves point backward, skipping characters that match

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  The following two functions move point over a specified set of
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,
then advances point if the character matches @var{character-set}.  This
continues until it reaches a character that does not match.  The

---------- Buffer: foo ----------
I read "The cat in the hat@point{}
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

@defun skip-chars-backward character-set &optional limit
This function moves point backward, skipping characters that match