Remove subsumed repetitions in regexps

Make regexps smaller and faster by removing terms that are superfluous
by virtue of standing next to another term that matches more.  See
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2020-01/msg00949.html
for details.

* lisp/bs.el (bs--make-header-match-string):
* lisp/gnus/deuglify.el (gnus-outlook-repair-attribution-block):
* lisp/gnus/message.el (message-subject-trailing-was-ask-regexp)
(message-subject-trailing-was-regexp):
* lisp/informat.el (Info-validate):
* lisp/net/browse-url.el (browse-url-button-regexp):
* lisp/net/rcirc.el (rcirc-url-regexp):
* lisp/org/ob-core.el (org-babel-remove-result):
* lisp/org/ob-fortran.el (org-babel-fortran-ensure-main-wrap):
* lisp/org/org-capture.el (org-capture-set-target-location):
* lisp/org/org-table.el (org-table-expand-lhs-ranges):
* lisp/org/org.el (org-maybe-keyword-time-regexp, org-ts-regexp)
(org-ts-regexp-inactive, org-ts-regexp-both):
* lisp/play/gametree.el (gametree-hack-file-layout):
* lisp/progmodes/cc-mode.el (c-Java-defun-prompt-regexp):
* lisp/progmodes/idlw-shell.el (idlwave-shell-halting-error):
* lisp/progmodes/ruby-mode.el (ruby-mode-set-encoding):
* lisp/progmodes/verilog-mode.el (verilog-error-font-lock-keywords)
(verilog-verilint-off, verilog-case-indent-level)
(verilog-within-translate-off, verilog-start-translate-off)
(verilog-back-to-start-translate-off, verilog-end-translate-off)
(verilog-expand-dirnames):
* lisp/term.el (term-control-seq-regexp):
* lisp/textmodes/reftex-vars.el (featurep):
* lisp/url/url-gw.el (url-open-telnet):
* lisp/vc/ediff-ptch.el (ediff-context-diff-label-regexp):
* lisp/vc/pcvs-parse.el (cvs-parse-status):
* test/src/regex-emacs-tests.el (regex-tests-PCRE):
Remove subsumed repetitions.
* lisp/progmodes/sh-script.el (sh-syntax-propertize-function):
Simplify repetition of a repetition.

2 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/gnus/deuglify.el b/lisp/gnus/deuglify.el
index 0ce4a7d2928..647f643c962 100644
--- a/lisp/gnus/deuglify.el
+++ b/lisp/gnus/deuglify.el
@@ -403,9 +403,9 @@ NODISPLAY is non-nil, don't redisplay the article buffer."
     (gnus-with-article-buffer
       (article-goto-body)
       (when (re-search-forward
-             (concat "^[" cite-marks " \t]*--* ?[^-]+ [^-]+ ?--*\\s *\n"
+             (concat "^[" cite-marks " \t]*--*[^-]+ [^-]+--*\\s *\n"
                      "[^\n:]+:[ \t]*\\([^\n]+\\)\n"
-                     "\\([^\n:]+:[ \t]*[^\n]+\n\\)+")
+                     "\\([^\n:]+:[^\n]+\n\\)+")
              nil t)
         (gnus-kill-all-overlays)
         (replace-match "\\1 wrote:\n")
diff --git a/lisp/gnus/message.el b/lisp/gnus/message.el
index 3abeec7e2f2..f1ace0eeb2e 100644
--- a/lisp/gnus/message.el
+++ b/lisp/gnus/message.el
@@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ used."
   :group 'message-various)
 
 (defcustom message-subject-trailing-was-ask-regexp
-  "[ \t]*\\([[(]+[Ww][Aa][Ss]:?[ \t]*.*[])]+\\)"
+  "[ \t]*\\([[(]+[Ww][Aa][Ss].*[])]+\\)"
   "Regexp matching \"(was: <old subject>)\" in the subject line.
 
 The function `message-strip-subject-trailing-was' uses this regexp if
@@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ It is okay to create some false positives here, as the user is asked."
   :type 'regexp)
 
 (defcustom message-subject-trailing-was-regexp
-  "[ \t]*\\((*[Ww][Aa][Ss]:[ \t]*.*)\\)"
+  "[ \t]*\\((*[Ww][Aa][Ss]:.*)\\)"
   "Regexp matching \"(was: <old subject>)\" in the subject line.
 
 If `message-subject-trailing-was-query' is set to t, the subject is