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In the Pygments Magma lexer, comments and whitespace are parsed under the `'whitespace-comments'` state. Standard whitespace is matched by `r'\s+'`, single-line comments are identified with `r'//.*'`, and multi-line comments transition to a `'comment-multiline'` state via `r'/\*'`. Inside the multi-line state, closing tokens `r'\*+/'` pop the state, non-closing stars `r'\*+(?!/)'` are matched as comments, and all other characters `r'[^*]+'` continue the comment.

Magma Lexer Comment and Whitespace Handling

In the Pygments Magma lexer, comments and whitespace are parsed under the ___ state.

Order the lifecycle steps the Pygments Magma lexer follows when encountering and processing a block comment.

How does the 'comment-multiline' state distinguish between the decorative non-closing asterisks and the terminating delimiter asterisks?

Inside the 'comment-multiline' state, which regular expression pattern is used to match characters that continue the comment without encountering an asterisk?

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