While skipping over spaces works fine using
(skip-chars-forward "\s-")
I can't seem to be able to skip over symbols using
(skip-chars-forward "\s_")
Maybe I am using she command wrongly, and it somehow recovers in the 1st case?
The relevant documentation does not seem to answer the question:
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Syntax-Class-Table.html http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Regexps.html
Syntax symbols as taken be search-forms aren't usable from skip-forms. Use skip-syntax-...
(skip-syntax-forward "_")
Or use an own sets of chars to move
(setq "my-choice" "[[:alnum:]].")
Evaluating form below after ")" should jump behind "...."
(skip-chars-forward my-choice)asdf....
Alternatively, using Emacs Werkstatt: M-x ar-symbol- TAB displays a whole bunch of commands working on symbols: forward, backward, delete, copy, hide... etc
BTW, the reason why skip-chars doesn't take syntax is, probably, speed.
Skip-chars is very fast, reading and translating syntax tables probably would slow it down.
You probably want (skip-syntax-forward "w_"), which skips over both word and symbol characters.
If you want to match syntax classes in a regexp written as a string, for passing to functions like search-regexp-forward, you will need to double your backslashes: "\\s-". But the argument to skip-syntax-forward is not a regexp, just a string in which each character represents a syntax class.
