Fix regex repetition of repetitions

Problems reported by Mattias Engdegård in:
https://lists.gnu.org/r/emacs-devel/2019-12/msg00066.html
* lisp/gnus/gnus-util.el (gnus-emacs-version):
* lisp/mail/rfc2368.el (rfc2368-mailto-regexp):
* lisp/net/tramp-sh.el (tramp-sh-inotifywait-process-filter):
* lisp/obsolete/terminal.el (te-parse-program-and-args):
* lisp/org/org-table.el (org-table-wrap-region):
* lisp/progmodes/verilog-mode.el (verilog-inject-inst):
Avoid repetition-of-repetition in regexp.

6 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/gnus/gnus-util.el b/lisp/gnus/gnus-util.el
index 8e390473aa8..42021d30730 100644
--- a/lisp/gnus/gnus-util.el
+++ b/lisp/gnus/gnus-util.el
@@ -1574,7 +1574,7 @@ sequence, this is like `mapcar'.  With several, it is like the Common Lisp
     (cond
      ((not (memq 'emacs lst))
       nil)
-     ((string-match "^\\(\\([.0-9]+\\)*\\)\\.[0-9]+$" emacs-version)
+     ((string-match "^[.0-9]*\\.[0-9]+$" emacs-version)
       (concat "Emacs/" emacs-version
               (if system-v
                   (concat " (" system-v ")")
diff --git a/lisp/mail/rfc2368.el b/lisp/mail/rfc2368.el
index 05f27e4d998..b658ffab587 100644
--- a/lisp/mail/rfc2368.el
+++ b/lisp/mail/rfc2368.el
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@
 ;; only an approximation?
 ;; see rfc 1738
 (defconst rfc2368-mailto-regexp
-  "^\\(mailto:\\)\\([^?]+\\)*\\(\\?\\(.*\\)\\)*"
+  "^\\(mailto:\\)\\([^?]+\\)?\\(\\?\\(.*\\)\\)*"
   "Regular expression to match and aid in parsing a mailto url.")
 
 ;; describes 'mailto:'
diff --git a/lisp/net/tramp-sh.el b/lisp/net/tramp-sh.el
index 59a93a839e0..2aef6ea10fb 100644
--- a/lisp/net/tramp-sh.el
+++ b/lisp/net/tramp-sh.el
@@ -3799,7 +3799,7 @@ Fall back to normal file name handler if no Tramp handler exists."
       (unless (string-match
                (eval-when-compile
                  (concat "^[^[:blank:]]+"
-                         "[[:blank:]]+\\([^[:blank:]]+\\)+"
+                         "[[:blank:]]+\\([^[:blank:]]+\\)"
                          "\\([[:blank:]]+\\([^\n\r]+\\)\\)?"))
                line)
         (tramp-error proc 'file-notify-error "%s" line))
diff --git a/lisp/obsolete/terminal.el b/lisp/obsolete/terminal.el
index ce6f2309fd3..c12d225beff 100644
--- a/lisp/obsolete/terminal.el
+++ b/lisp/obsolete/terminal.el
@@ -1166,7 +1166,7 @@ subprocess started."
          (let ((l ()) (p 0))
            (while p
              (setq l (cons (if (string-match
-                                "\\([-a-zA-Z0-9+=_.@/:]+\\)\\([ \t]+\\)*"
+                                "\\([-a-zA-Z0-9+=_.@/:]+\\)[ \t]*"
                                 s p)
                                (prog1 (substring s p (match-end 1))
                                  (setq p (match-end 0))
diff --git a/lisp/org/org-table.el b/lisp/org/org-table.el
index a21587acbe0..5f42db50688 100644
--- a/lisp/org/org-table.el
+++ b/lisp/org/org-table.el
@@ -4642,7 +4642,7 @@ blank, and the content is appended to the field above."
         (skip-chars-backward " ")
         (insert " " (org-trim s))
         (org-table-align)))
-     ((looking-at "\\([^|]+\\)+|")      ; Split field.
+     ((looking-at "\\([^|]+\\)|")       ; Split field.
       (let ((s (match-string 1)))
         (replace-match " |")
         (goto-char (match-beginning 0))
diff --git a/lisp/progmodes/verilog-mode.el b/lisp/progmodes/verilog-mode.el
index 0afbdc3dd18..6ec8d995c15 100644
--- a/lisp/progmodes/verilog-mode.el
+++ b/lisp/progmodes/verilog-mode.el
@@ -10973,7 +10973,7 @@ shown) will make this into:
                 (t
                  ;; Delete identical interconnect
                  (let ((case-fold-search nil))  ; So we don't convert upper-to-lower, etc
-                   (while (verilog-re-search-forward-quick "\\.\\s *\\([a-zA-Z0-9`_$]+\\)*\\s *(\\s *\\1\\s *)\\s *" end-pt t)
+                   (while (verilog-re-search-forward-quick "\\.\\s *\\([a-zA-Z0-9`_$]+\\)?\\s *(\\s *\\1\\s *)\\s *" end-pt t)
                      (delete-region (match-beginning 0) (match-end 0))
                      (setq end-pt (- end-pt (- (match-end 0) (match-beginning 0))))  ; Keep it correct
                      (while (or (looking-at "[ \t\n\f,]+")