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> The critical part is that "." matches anything but a newline.
> Therefore use "\(.\|\n\)" for any character or a newline.

Beware: such a regexp tends to suffer from the "regexp stack overflow"
problem.  Better use \(.*\n\)*.* which is equivalent but uses a lot
less stack space.

Sadly, to understand why you need to understand details of how the regexp
matching happens to be implemented in Emacs.


        Stefan