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

2 files changed, 3 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/lispref/ChangeLog b/lispref/ChangeLog
index 3d6b3cfd59c..5e5cdfc8955 100644
--- a/lispref/ChangeLog
+++ b/lispref/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 2004-11-20  Richard M. Stallman  <rms@gnu.org>
 
+        * positions.texi (Skipping Characters): skip-chars-forward
+        now handles char classes.
+
         * intro.texi (Printing Notation): Avoid confusion of `print'
         when explaining @print.
 
diff --git a/lispref/positions.texi b/lispref/positions.texi
index 12ec9f7ff4e..783024da052 100644
--- a/lispref/positions.texi
+++ b/lispref/positions.texi
@@ -796,16 +796,6 @@ comes back" twice.
 @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