diff --git a/basis/multiline/multiline.factor b/basis/multiline/multiline.factor
index cf671c5609..1cc418a1f6 100755
--- a/basis/multiline/multiline.factor
+++ b/basis/multiline/multiline.factor
@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
 ! Copyright (C) 2007 Daniel Ehrenberg
 ! See http://factorcode.org/license.txt for BSD license.
-USING: namespaces parser lexer kernel sequences words quotations math ;
+USING: namespaces parser lexer kernel sequences words quotations math
+accessors ;
 IN: multiline
 
 : next-line-text ( -- str )
-    lexer get dup next-line lexer-line-text ;
+    lexer get dup next-line text>> ;
 
 : (parse-here) ( -- )
     next-line-text [
@@ -22,7 +23,7 @@ IN: multiline
     parse-here 1quotation define-inline ; parsing
 
 : (parse-multiline-string) ( start-index end-text -- end-index )
-    lexer get lexer-line-text [
+    lexer get text>> [
         2dup start
         [ rot dupd >r >r swap subseq % r> r> length + ] [
             rot tail % "\n" % 0
@@ -32,8 +33,8 @@ IN: multiline
 
 : parse-multiline-string ( end-text -- str )
     [
-        lexer get lexer-column swap (parse-multiline-string)
-        lexer get set-lexer-column
+        lexer get column>> swap (parse-multiline-string)
+        lexer get (>>column)
     ] "" make rest but-last ;
 
 : <"