[ESS] elisp problems (was Re: feature request: look more places for R on windows [code]) [solved]

[Rodney Sparapani]

On 04/18/2013 04:48 PM, Ross Boylan wrote:
> Bizarrely, neither [:space:] nor [:blank:] seems to match \t, e.g.,
> (string-match "^.*REG_SZ[:blank:]*\\([^ ].*\\) *" tlong) does not match.

Hi Ross:

The emacs docs say otherwise...
‘[:blank:]’ This matches space and tab only.
‘[:space:]’ This matches any character that has whitespace syntax

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Char-Classes.html

Maybe it is a bug.

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