* [:alpha:] Does not work
@ 2014-01-31 5:54 Cecil Westerhof
2014-01-31 6:23 ` Yuri Khan
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From: Cecil Westerhof @ 2014-01-31 5:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
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I would aspect that when I have the following:
(re-search-forward "[[:alpha:]]" nil t)
0123456789ABCDE
That when I execute the search I would find the 0, but I find the A.
What is going wrong here? I am using:
GNU Emacs 24.2.1 (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.6.4) of 2013-02-21 on build16
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2014-01-31 5:54 [:alpha:] Does not work Cecil Westerhof
@ 2014-01-31 6:23 ` Yuri Khan
2014-01-31 8:02 ` Chris F.A. Johnson
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From: Yuri Khan @ 2014-01-31 6:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Cecil Westerhof; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> wrote:
> I would aspect that when I have the following:
> (re-search-forward "[[:alpha:]]" nil t)
> 0123456789ABCDE
>
> That when I execute the search I would find the 0, but I find the A.
Maybe you’re confusing with [[:alnum:]]?
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Char-Classes.html
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2014-01-31 5:54 [:alpha:] Does not work Cecil Westerhof
2014-01-31 6:23 ` Yuri Khan
@ 2014-01-31 8:02 ` Chris F.A. Johnson
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From: Chris F.A. Johnson @ 2014-01-31 8:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Cecil Westerhof; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs
On Fri, 31 Jan 2014, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
> I would aspect that when I have the following:
> (re-search-forward "[[:alpha:]]" nil t)
> 0123456789ABCDE
>
> That when I execute the search I would find the 0, but I find the A.
> What is going wrong here? I am using:
> GNU Emacs 24.2.1 (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.6.4) of 2013-02-21 on build16
What is your locale?
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