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"Ulf Andersson" <ulf.andersson7@telia.com> writes:

> And it does indeed color the header correctly some times, but not always.
> The documentation for font-lock also says that "keywords", i.e. regexps
> in the `font-lock-keywords' variable, should not span several lines, as
> this is "unreliable", to use the Elisp manual's word.

I think recent versions of font-lock have the variable
font-lock-multiline.  Does yours, too?  It might help?

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