Ivan Andrus <darthandrus@gmail.com> writes:

> I merely swapped the order of the first two blocks mentioned and was
> able to get past the error.  But there are likely other places that need
> to be fixed as well.
>
> I have commit access, and can make the change (as well as tracking down
> other places where it might be necessary), but I would like some
> feedback on whether this is the right way solve it.  Presumably there
> was a reason escape sequences were dropped after start was set up.

I think this method of using 2 different regexps to match the escape
sequences is an over complication, I propose to simplify: