newbie DFA question

["Peter D. Gray" <pdg@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I am trying to write a new mode with syntax highlighting
and have run into a snag in my understanding. It appears from
the documentaion and some experimentation that
the dfa regular expressions do not cross line
boundaries.

So my question is how do I hightlight an area of text
bounded by some pattern, ignoring newlines.

I know jed can do this because in C mode /*   */
comments work fine across line boundaries,
even though I cannot see how from reading
the cmode dfa rules. Any help appreciated.

Regards,
pdg


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