I was trying to fix the Emacs Template Toolkit mode file so that it correctly highlights multi-line directives. I could not find how to tell Emacs to make “.” match also a newline, but I found that the negative clause [^...] will match anything that is not specified, including newlines. So by using it with [...]
How to match multi-line regular expressions in Emacs Lisp
March 27th, 2007 · 5 Comments
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