# HG changeset patch
# User Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
# Date 1101009038 0
# Node ID 23dfc76d362587ad001c7f9f6f501a0377bd9409
# Parent  961a75031ddc1cd39670ea2cef29eeae640a4f2b
(Skipping Characters): skip-chars-forward now handles char classes.

diff -r 961a75031ddc -r 23dfc76d3625 lispref/positions.texi
--- a/lispref/positions.texi	Sun Nov 21 03:27:39 2004 +0000
+++ b/lispref/positions.texi	Sun Nov 21 03:50:38 2004 +0000
@@ -796,16 +796,6 @@
 @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