Re: Scan of regexp mistakes

[Paul Eggert]

Mattias Engdegård wrote:
> --- a/lisp/vc/add-log.el
> +++ b/lisp/vc/add-log.el
> @@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ a case simply use the directory containing the changed 
> file."
>       ;; wrongly with a non-date line existing as a random note.  In
>       ;; addition, using any kind of fixed setting like this doesn't
>       ;; work if a user customizes add-log-time-format.
> -    ("^[0-9-]+ +\\|^ \\{11,\\}\\|^\t 
> \\{3,\\}\\|^\\(Sun\\|Mon\\|Tue\\|Wed\\|Thu\\|Fri\\|Sat\\) [A-z][a-z][a-z] [0-9:+ ]+"
> +    ("^[0-9-]+ +\\|^ \\{11,\\}\\|^\t 
> \\{3,\\}\\|^\\(Sun\\|Mon\\|Tue\\|Wed\\|Thu\\|Fri\\|Sat\\) [A-Z][a-z][a-z] [0-9:+ ]+"
>
> The [A-z] should become [A-Za-z] rather than [A-Z], right?

From context I think not. It's trying to match a particular English-language 
date format where month-name abbreviations are always capitalized. The author 
was too lazy to list the twelve abbreviations.