Re: How to highlight-regexp across multiple lines

[Thorsten Jolitz]

Angus Comber <anguscomber@gmail.com> writes:

> I was looking at this question on stackoverflow and it seems regex can
> select across multiple lines generally but how would I do so for
> highlight-regexp in emacs?
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/159118/how-do-i-match-any-character-across-multiple-lines-in-a-regular-expression
>
>
> Eg I want to highlight ALL text from aPDU... to the final closing brace:
>
> aPDU-rose : retResult : {
>   invokeID 2,
>   operValue {
>     operationValue local : 71,
>     result {
>       crossRefIdentifier '40 3f'H
>     }
>   }
> }
>
>
> How would I do that using highlight-regexp?
>
> highlight-regexp aPDU-rose.* hi-yellow  would get me the first line - but
> how to get everything including last } character?

This regexp did match the aPDU in the gnus *Article* buffer:

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| "^aPDU[^\\000]+[}]+?$"
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cheers,
Thorsten