Question

The Emacs documentation has a section on character classes. According to the manual, [:digit:] should match any digit character. I’ve tried that using re-builder but they never match, even though [0-9] matches.

How do I use character classes in an Emacs regex?

Answer 1

I figured it out. The documentation is actually explicit:

Here is a table of the classes you can use in a character alternative

So [[:digit:]] is the right way to use character classes.