Variable: font-lock-multiline

font-lock-multiline is a buffer-local variable defined in font-lock.el.gz.

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Whether font-lock should cater to multiline keywords.

If nil, don't try to handle multiline patterns. If t, always handle multiline patterns. If undecided, don't try to handle multiline patterns until you see one. Major/minor modes can set this variable if they know which option applies.

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Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 21.1.

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/font-lock.el.gz
(defvar-local font-lock-multiline nil
  "Whether font-lock should cater to multiline keywords.
If nil, don't try to handle multiline patterns.
If t, always handle multiline patterns.
If `undecided', don't try to handle multiline patterns until you see one.
Major/minor modes can set this variable if they know which option applies.")