Re: Why are RegExps never working?

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:51:27 +0100, Sven Bretfeld <sven.bretfeld@gmx.ch> wrote:
> It's partly working. But not with all major modes. [...]
>  -- Syntax class: whitespace character
>      "Whitespace characters" (designated by ` ' or `-') separate
>      symbols and words from each other.  Typically, whitespace
>      characters have no other syntactic significance, and multiple
>      whitespace characters are syntactically equivalent to a single
>      one.  Space, tab, newline and formfeed are classified as
>      whitespace in almost all major modes.
>                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Obviously not in the LaTeX major mode. It's a pity. Would have been a
> nice shortcut.

Ah!  That's what was going on.  Nice catch :)