(json-advance): Use forward-char.

(json-skip-whitespace): Use skip-syntax-forward.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/json.el b/lisp/json.el
index 38ec16f5db7..203ec596980 100644
--- a/lisp/json.el
+++ b/lisp/json.el
@@ -123,11 +123,7 @@ this around your call to `json-read' instead of `setq'ing it.")
 
 (defsubst json-advance (&optional n)
   "Skip past the following N characters."
-  (unless n (setq n 1))
-  (let ((goal (+ (point) n)))
-    (goto-char goal)
-    (when (< (point) goal)
-      (signal 'end-of-file nil))))
+  (forward-char n))
 
 (defsubst json-peek ()
   "Return the character at point."
@@ -144,8 +140,7 @@ this around your call to `json-read' instead of `setq'ing it.")
 
 (defun json-skip-whitespace ()
   "Skip past the whitespace at point."
-  (while (looking-at "[\t\r\n\f\b ]")
-    (goto-char (match-end 0))))
+  (skip-syntax-forward " "))