4 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/progmodes/sh-script.el b/lisp/progmodes/sh-script.el
index dd3a6fa411e..853a3500ee1 100644
--- a/lisp/progmodes/sh-script.el
+++ b/lisp/progmodes/sh-script.el
@@ -2905,8 +2905,7 @@ STRING	     This is ignored for the purposes of calculating
                       (setq align-point (point))))
                 (or (bobp)
                     (forward-char -1))
-                ;; FIXME: This charset looks too much like a regexp.  --Stef
-                (skip-chars-forward "[a-z0-9]*?")
+                (skip-chars-forward "*0-9?[]a-z")
                 )
                ((string-match "[])}]" x)
                 (setq x (sh-safe-forward-sexp -1))
diff --git a/lisp/progmodes/verilog-mode.el b/lisp/progmodes/verilog-mode.el
index 7b9c3921fba..916594bdde0 100644
--- a/lisp/progmodes/verilog-mode.el
+++ b/lisp/progmodes/verilog-mode.el
@@ -14263,7 +14263,7 @@ and the case items."
 (defun verilog-sk-define-signal ()
   "Insert a definition of signal under point at top of module."
   (interactive "*")
-  (let* ((sig-re "[a-zA-Z0-9_]*")
+  (let* ((sig-re "a-zA-Z0-9_")
          (v1 (buffer-substring
               (save-excursion
                 (skip-chars-backward sig-re)
diff --git a/lisp/vc/log-edit.el b/lisp/vc/log-edit.el
index 8bd1bbddb78..42710dd8dc9 100644
--- a/lisp/vc/log-edit.el
+++ b/lisp/vc/log-edit.el
@@ -350,7 +350,7 @@ The first subexpression is the actual text of the field.")
 (defun log-edit-goto-eoh ()             ;FIXME: Almost rfc822-goto-eoh!
   (goto-char (point-min))
   (when (re-search-forward
-         "^\\([^[:alpha:]]\\|[[:alnum:]-]+[^[:alnum:]-:]\\)" nil 'move)
+         "^\\([^[:alpha:]]\\|[[:alnum:]-]+[^[:alnum:]-]\\)" nil 'move)
     (goto-char (match-beginning 0))))
 
 (defun log-edit--match-first-line (limit)
diff --git a/lisp/xml.el b/lisp/xml.el
index 2337952f064..b5b923f863e 100644
--- a/lisp/xml.el
+++ b/lisp/xml.el
@@ -718,10 +718,10 @@ This follows the rule [28] in the XML specifications."
     (cond ((looking-at "PUBLIC\\s-+")
            (goto-char (match-end 0))
            (unless (or (re-search-forward
-                        "\\=\"\\([[:space:][:alnum:]-'()+,./:=?;!*#@$_%]*\\)\""
+                        "\\=\"\\([[:space:][:alnum:]'()+,./:=?;!*#@$_%-]*\\)\""
                         nil t)
                        (re-search-forward
-                        "\\='\\([[:space:][:alnum:]-()+,./:=?;!*#@$_%]*\\)'"
+                        "\\='\\([[:space:][:alnum:]()+,./:=?;!*#@$_%-]*\\)'"
                         nil t))
              (error "XML: Missing Public ID"))
            (let ((pubid (match-string-no-properties 1)))