Variable: emacs-authors--author-re
emacs-authors--author-re is a variable defined in
emacs-authors-mode.el.gz.
Value
"^\\([^\n[:blank:]][^\n:]+?\\):"
Documentation
Regexp matching an author in "etc/AUTHORS".
Source Code
;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/textmodes/emacs-authors-mode.el.gz
(defconst emacs-authors--author-re
(rx bol (group (not (any blank "\n")) (+? (not (any ":" "\n")))) ":")
"Regexp matching an author in \"etc/AUTHORS\".")