Fix edge case errors in filename-matching regexps

These changes fix actual or latent bugs in regexps that match
file names, such as PATTERN arguments to 'directory-files'.  See
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2020-04/msg00265.html

* admin/authors.el (authors-obsolete-files-regexps)
(authors-renamed-files-regexps):
* lisp/auth-source-pass.el (auth-source-pass-entries):
* lisp/calendar/todo-mode.el (todo-show, todo-find-filtered-items-file)
(todo-filter-items, todo-reset-nondiary-marker, todo-reset-done-string)
(todo-reset-comment-string, todo-reset-highlight-item):
* lisp/cedet/semantic/db-ebrowse.el (semanticdb-load-ebrowse-caches):
* lisp/cedet/semantic/texi.el (semantic-texi-associated-files):
* lisp/cedet/srecode/map.el (srecode-map-update-map):
* lisp/dired.el (dired-re-no-dot):
* lisp/emacs-lisp/autoload.el (update-directory-autoloads):
* lisp/emacs-lisp/shadow.el (load-path-shadows-find):
* lisp/files.el (auto-mode-alist, directory-files-no-dot-files-regexp):
* lisp/finder.el (finder-compile-keywords):
* lisp/generic-x.el (inetd-conf-generic-mode, named-boot-generic-mode)
(resolve-conf-generic-mode, etc-modules-conf-generic-mode):
* lisp/gnus/gnus-agent.el (gnus-agent-read-agentview)
(gnus-agent-regenerate-group, gnus-agent-update-files-total-fetched-for):
* lisp/gnus/gnus-cache.el (gnus-cache-articles-in-group):
* lisp/gnus/gnus-score.el (gnus-score-search-global-directories):
* lisp/gnus/gnus-util.el (gnus-delete-directory):
* lisp/gnus/gnus-uu.el (gnus-uu-dir-files):
* lisp/gnus/nndraft.el (nndraft-request-group):
* lisp/gnus/nnmh.el (nnmh-request-group, nnmh-request-create-group):
(nnmh-request-delete-group, nnmh-active-number, nnmh-update-gnus-unreads):
* lisp/gnus/nnspool.el (nnspool-request-group):
* lisp/gnus/spam-stat.el (spam-stat-process-directory)
(spam-stat-test-directory):
* lisp/help-fns.el (help-fns--first-release):
* lisp/help.el (view-emacs-news):
* lisp/international/quail.el (quail-update-leim-list-file):
* lisp/international/titdic-cnv.el (batch-titdic-convert):
* lisp/mail/mspools.el (mspools-set-vm-spool-files)
(mspools-get-spool-files):
* lisp/mail/rmail.el (rmail-secondary-file-regexp)
(rmail-speedbar-match-folder-regexp):
* lisp/net/ange-ftp.el (ange-ftp-delete-directory):
* lisp/net/tramp.el (tramp-use-absolute-autoload-file-names):
* lisp/obsolete/gulp.el (gulp-send-requests):
* lisp/obsolete/vc-arch.el (vc-arch-trim-revlib):
* lisp/org/ob-core.el (org-babel-remove-temporary-directory):
* lisp/progmodes/ebnf2ps.el (ebnf-file-suffix-regexp, ebnf-style-database):
* lisp/progmodes/executable.el (executable-command-find-posix-p):
* lisp/startup.el (command-line):
* lisp/textmodes/refer.el (refer-get-bib-files):
* lisp/url/url-about.el (url-probe-protocols):
* lisp/vc/vc-rcs.el (vc-rcs-register, vc-rcs-unregister):
* test/lisp/net/tramp-archive-tests.el
(tramp-archive-test19-directory-files-and-attributes):
* test/lisp/net/tramp-tests.el (tramp-test19-directory-files-and-attributes):
Replace ^ and $ with \` and \', respectively.
Use (rx (or (not ".") "...")), translated into "[^.]\\|\\.\\.\\.",
to match anything but "." and "..", instead of several incorrect
regexps.

2 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/test/lisp/net/tramp-archive-tests.el b/test/lisp/net/tramp-archive-tests.el
index 3229d2b6506..95e41a3f03b 100644
--- a/test/lisp/net/tramp-archive-tests.el
+++ b/test/lisp/net/tramp-archive-tests.el
@@ -669,7 +669,7 @@ This tests also `access-file', `file-readable-p' and `file-regular-p'."
 	  (setq attr (directory-files-and-attributes tmp-name 'full))
 	  (dolist (elt attr)
 	    (should (equal (file-attributes (car elt)) (cdr elt))))
-	  (setq attr (directory-files-and-attributes tmp-name nil "^b"))
+	  (setq attr (directory-files-and-attributes tmp-name nil "\\`b"))
 	  (should (equal (mapcar #'car attr) '("bar"))))
 
       ;; Cleanup.
diff --git a/test/lisp/net/tramp-tests.el b/test/lisp/net/tramp-tests.el
index 47d51767c5c..544bdb5c058 100644
--- a/test/lisp/net/tramp-tests.el
+++ b/test/lisp/net/tramp-tests.el
@@ -3331,7 +3331,7 @@ They might differ only in time attributes or directory size."
 	       (tramp--test-file-attributes-equal-p
 		(file-attributes (car elt)) (cdr elt))))
 
-	    (setq attr (directory-files-and-attributes tmp-name2 nil "^b"))
+	    (setq attr (directory-files-and-attributes tmp-name2 nil "\\`b"))
 	    (should (equal (mapcar #'car attr) '("bar" "boz"))))
 
 	;; Cleanup.