diff --git a/miscellaneous/fuzzy-parse/src/Data/Text/Fuzzy/SExp.hs b/miscellaneous/fuzzy-parse/src/Data/Text/Fuzzy/SExp.hs
index e4127a5c..9c6050a9 100644
--- a/miscellaneous/fuzzy-parse/src/Data/Text/Fuzzy/SExp.hs
+++ b/miscellaneous/fuzzy-parse/src/Data/Text/Fuzzy/SExp.hs
@@ -184,6 +184,7 @@ tokenizeSexp txt =  do
                             <> punct ",`'{}()[]\n"
                             <> sqq
                             <> uw
+                            <> esc
   tokenize spec txt
 
 runSexpM :: Monad m => SExpM m a -> m a