Subject: Re: bug#58992: 28.2; "lax space matching" no longer works

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2022 12:38:14 +0100

On Nov 04 2022, Vincent Lefevre wrote:

> Wow! This is really confusing! [:space:] is defined by POSIX,

Emacs regexps are _not_ defined by POSIX.

>     A character alternative can also specify named character classes
>     (*note Char Classes::).  This is a POSIX feature.  [...]

Did you read the referenced node?

‘[:space:]’
     This matches any character that has whitespace syntax (*note Syntax
     Class Table::).

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