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Timur Aydin <timuraydin@superonline.com> writes:

> I am struggling to find C style comments using the
> isearch-forward-regexp function (C-M-s). Here is the regexp that I am
> using:
>
> /\*\(.\|^J\)*\*/

Why with a regexp?  Why not use a command like forward-comment?

Or you could use font-lock and just search for the next character
which has comment face.
-- 
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