diff -r fb269e11da1f MoinMoin/action/SlideShow.py
--- a/MoinMoin/action/SlideShow.py	Sun Sep 26 22:34:00 2010 +0200
+++ b/MoinMoin/action/SlideShow.py	Tue Sep 28 21:20:08 2010 +0200
@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@
 @copyright: 2005 Jim Clark,
             2005 Nir Soffer,
             2008 MoinMoin:ThomasWaldmann,
-            2009 MoinMoin:ReimarBauer
+            2009 MoinMoin:ReimarBauer,
+            2010 Paul Boddie
 @license: GNU GPL, see COPYING for details.
 """
 
@@ -38,7 +39,7 @@
     """
     _heading_pattern = re.compile(r"""
         # TODO: check, mhz found bug here
-        (?P<skip>{{{(?:.*\n)+?}}}) |
+        (?P<skip>{{{(?:.|\n)*?}}}) |
         # Match headings level 1
         (?P<heading>^=\s(?P<text>.*)\s=$\n?)
         """, re.MULTILINE | re.UNICODE | re.VERBOSE)