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"Ehud Karni" <ehud@unix.mvs.co.il> writes:

> This is very easy to fix (change the `t' to `1' in the 3rd arg to
> `re-search-forward', see its help) like this:
> 
> (defun forward-to-non-blank ()
>   "go to 1st non blank (after blank) to right,
> if there is none go to end of buffer"
>   (interactive)
>        (if (re-search-forward "[ \t\n][^ \t\n]" (point-max) 1)  
>            (backward-char 1)))

Thanks again Ehud, it works great now. :-)

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Richard V. Molen

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