[DoreenMichele]

If you indent it two spaces, I think that should solve that problem:

   *(`^#.$`), and others will interpret it as you have (`^#.?\n`)*

(Not sure where you intended those asterisks. I made my best inference.)

[eyelidlessness]

Yeah I was hoping to keep them inline, but indenting surely would have helped. I intended them after the dots (`.*`, dot asterisk in case I get the escaping wrong, is 0 or more characters in regex).