Multi-line regular expressions parsing

[tommai78101]

It is mentioned in this issue:

atom/language-java#186

Where the RegExp engine, oniguruma, cannot do multi-line regular expressions parsing. I'm wondering if this is the case, and if so, whether there will be additional support for multi-line parsing?

Thanks.

[kkos]

I don't know exactly what multi-line you are saying, but it is possible if it simply means searching for a string containing multiple lines.
In any case, you need to show the regular expression pattern, the target character string, and the character encoding.

Are the following old issues relevant?
#11 (comment)

[tommai78101]

Somewhat.

The issue I referred to was actually referring to something where it's parsing the lines incorrectly and thus applying the Java syntax highlighting incorrectly.

The very original issue came from here: microsoft/vscode#63137

But, given how your old issue mentioned there's a technical limitation, it makes sense.