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

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2022 14:25:20 +0100

On Nov 04 2022, Vincent Lefevre wrote:

> On 2022-11-04 12:38:14 +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> 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?
>
> Did you read what the manual says?

Yes, I did.

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

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