This is mostly to do with the syntax matching, the regexes used for that, and thus ultimately also the implementation of the regex engine (which was more or les

This is mostly to do with the syntax matching, the regexes used for that, and thus ultimately also the implementation of the regex engine (which was more or less swapped in Vim 7.4). It bother me a bit too (but not too much). Perhaps it can be mended, we'll see :).