From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Chris F.A. Johnson" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [:alpha:] Does not work Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 03:02:47 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: References: <87k3dgd7bu.fsf@Equus.Decebal.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1391157597 28340 80.91.229.3 (31 Jan 2014 08:39:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 08:39:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Cecil Westerhof Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 31 09:40:04 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W99dr-0006LC-Ns for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Jan 2014 09:40:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53772 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W99dr-00029T-C6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Jan 2014 03:40:03 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53978) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W993w-0002cn-Vz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jan 2014 03:03:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W993p-0003mL-Mt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jan 2014 03:02:56 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:63185) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W993p-0003m3-JX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jan 2014 03:02:49 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av8EABK/CFHAAL+k/2dsb2JhbABEuzWDWRdzgh4BAQQBOAIcIwULCzQSOR4GiB4GwS2RCgOIYZ13gxU X-IPAS-Result: Av8EABK/CFHAAL+k/2dsb2JhbABEuzWDWRdzgh4BAQQBOAIcIwULCzQSOR4GiB4GwS2RCgOIYZ13gxU X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,565,1355115600"; d="scan'208";a="46479271" Original-Received: from 192-0-191-164.cpe.teksavvy.com (HELO chris.local) ([192.0.191.164]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 31 Jan 2014 03:02:47 -0500 X-X-Sender: chris@chris In-Reply-To: <87k3dgd7bu.fsf@Equus.Decebal.nl> User-Agent: Alpine 2.10 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 03:39:51 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:95824 Archived-At: 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?