Highlight multiple lines between two search patterns in gvim

Question

I am trying to highlight multiple lines that match between two words which are present on two different lines.

1.Todo: used for the todo comments (ones that have "TODO: something" in them)
2.Comment: indicates a code comment.
3.Statement: a code statement like a for loop
4.Type: a user defined type generally
5.PreProc: a pre-processor statement like #include <stdio.h>

To highlight between todo and something on single line we use /todo.*something

but to highlight between todo and stdio(which is present on 5th line) is there any command.

Thanks.

Answer 1

you can make use \_. to include linebreaks. For the example todo ... stdio, you can try:

/todo\_.\{-}stdio