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Subject: Re: font-lock doesn't mark block comments as "multiline"
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> There are several ways I can imagine fixing this, but I'm wondering why
> font-lock doesn't automatically apply the font-lock-multiline property
> to block comments when it's applying the face to them.

Comments are handled by syntactic fontification.  "font-lock-multiline
properties" are applied by keywords fontification only.

Please give a precise example where your code fails.