diff --git a/app/controllers/journals_controller.rb b/app/controllers/journals_controller.rb
index fc4edae21..fe1c01907 100644
--- a/app/controllers/journals_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/journals_controller.rb
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ class JournalsController < ApplicationController
       text = @issue.description
     end
     # Replaces pre blocks with [...]
-    text = text.to_s.strip.gsub(%r{<pre>((.|\s)*?)</pre>}m, '[...]')
+    text = text.to_s.strip.gsub(%r{<pre>(.*?)</pre>}m, '[...]')
     @content = "#{ll(Setting.default_language, :text_user_wrote, user)}\n> "
     @content << text.gsub(/(\r?\n|\r\n?)/, "\n> ") + "\n\n"
   rescue ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound
diff --git a/app/controllers/messages_controller.rb b/app/controllers/messages_controller.rb
index 2bbce2d1d..0eb9f0bef 100644
--- a/app/controllers/messages_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/messages_controller.rb
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ class MessagesController < ApplicationController
     @subject = "RE: #{@subject}" unless @subject.starts_with?('RE:')
 
     @content = "#{ll(Setting.default_language, :text_user_wrote, @message.author)}\n> "
-    @content << @message.content.to_s.strip.gsub(%r{<pre>((.|\s)*?)</pre>}m, '[...]').gsub(/(\r?\n|\r\n?)/, "\n> ") + "\n\n"
+    @content << @message.content.to_s.strip.gsub(%r{<pre>(.*?)</pre>}m, '[...]').gsub(/(\r?\n|\r\n?)/, "\n> ") + "\n\n"
   end
 
   def preview