Re: [SOLVED] Re: (rx regexp to remove space and new lines

[Michael Heerdegen]

<tomas@tuxteam.de> writes:

> > Eh - oh, of course, depends on the syntax table, sorry.
>
> This would be unfortunate. What would correspond to "[[:space:]]", i.e.
> the syntax-independent POSIX whitespace?

rx transforms 'whitespace' to [:space:].

But (info "(elisp) Char Classes") told me that "[:space:] [...] matches
any character that has whitespace syntax (*note Syntax Class Table)", so I
assumed that the meaning is not constant... or is it?

Michael.