diff --git a/test/tm-cases/link_patterns_escape.html b/test/tm-cases/link_patterns_escape.html
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+<p>Recipe 123 and <a href="http://bugs.activestate.com/show_bug.cgi?id=234">a link to Komodo bug 234</a> are related.</p>
+
+<p><a href="http://example.org/Recipe 123">This is a link which has a pattern inside the url that shouldn't expand.</a></p>
+
+<p>Matched pattern is escaped: PEP 42 might be related too.</p>
+
+<p>Triple quotes not surrounding a matched pattern: PEP """42""" might be related too.</p>
+
+<p>"""This is some random text which should not be touched."""</p>
diff --git a/test/tm-cases/link_patterns_escape.opts b/test/tm-cases/link_patterns_escape.opts
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+{"extras": ["link-patterns"],
+ "link_patterns": [
+    (re.compile("recipe\s+(\d+)", re.I), r"http://code.activestate.com/recipes/\1/"),
+    (re.compile("(?:komodo\s+)?bug\s+(\d+)", re.I), r"http://bugs.activestate.com/show_bug.cgi?id=\1"),
+    (re.compile("PEP\s+(\d+)", re.I), lambda m: "http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-%04d/" % int(m.group(1))),
+ ],
+}
+
diff --git a/test/tm-cases/link_patterns_escape.text b/test/tm-cases/link_patterns_escape.text
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+"""Recipe 123""" and <a href="http://bugs.activestate.com/show_bug.cgi?id=234">a link to """Komodo bug 234"""</a> are related.
+
+<a href="http://example.org/"""Recipe 123"""">This is a link which has a pattern inside the url that shouldn't expand.</a>
+
+Matched pattern is escaped: """PEP 42""" might be related too.
+
+Triple quotes not surrounding a matched pattern: PEP """42""" might be related too.
+
+"""This is some random text which should not be touched."""