Steven Levithan

Thanks—it's definitely helpful to know the precise details. However, just so we're clear for other people reading along, none of that is directly related to the what I posted. E.g.,...

> If it's 1:1 mapping than we could the precompile applying textmate's changes (which we are not doing right now). Not sure I'm understanding correctly, but I don't think we...

Yes, I think that's exactly what's needed. The affected regexes that need the bail out are any that are specifically an `end` or `while` pattern and return `true` for `/\\\d/.test(pattern)`....

Although I agree that would be cool for very simple cases with only a handful of possible exact matches (`"` or `'` in your example), it's not the right place...