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Re: :alnum: broken?


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: :alnum: broken?
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2020 09:48:02 +0200

> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2020 17:09:20 -0800
> 
> Perhaps better yet would be for Emacs to do what GNU grep does:
> 
> $ grep '[:space:]'
> grep: character class syntax is [[:space:]], not [:space:]
> $ echo $?
> 2

But "[:space:]" is a valid, though peculiar, character class, so
erroring out for it would be inappropriate, IMO.



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