diff --git a/src/components/Widgets/Markdown/serializers/remarkEscapeMarkdownEntities.js b/src/components/Widgets/Markdown/serializers/remarkEscapeMarkdownEntities.js
index 8688057a..6e7903c5 100644
--- a/src/components/Widgets/Markdown/serializers/remarkEscapeMarkdownEntities.js
+++ b/src/components/Widgets/Markdown/serializers/remarkEscapeMarkdownEntities.js
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { flow, partial, flatMap, flatten } from 'lodash';
+import { flow, partial, flatMap, flatten, map } from 'lodash';
 import { joinPatternSegments, combinePatterns, replaceWhen } from '../../../../lib/regexHelper';
 
 /**
@@ -138,6 +138,100 @@ const escapePatterns = [
 ];
 
 
+/**
+ * Generate new non-escape expression. The non-escape expression matches
+ * substrings whose contents should not be processed for escaping.
+ */
+const joinedNonEscapePatterns = map(nonEscapePatterns, pattern => {
+  return new RegExp(joinPatternSegments(pattern));
+});
+const nonEscapePattern = combinePatterns(joinedNonEscapePatterns);
+
+
+/**
+ * Create chain of successive escape functions for various markdown entities.
+ */
+const escapeFunctions = escapePatterns.map(pattern => partial(escapeDelimiters, pattern));
+const escapeAll = flow(escapeFunctions);
+
+
+/**
+ * Executes both the `escapeCommonChars` and `escapeLeadingChars` functions.
+ */
+function escapeAllChars(text) {
+  const partiallyEscapedMarkdown = escapeCommonChars(text);
+  return escapeLeadingChars(partiallyEscapedMarkdown);
+}
+
+
+/**
+ * escapeLeadingChars
+ *
+ * Handles escaping for characters that must be positioned at the beginning of
+ * the string, such as headers and list items.
+ *
+ * Escapes '#', '*', '-', '>', '=', '|', and sequences of 3+ backticks or 4+
+ * spaces when found at the beginning of a string, preceded by zero or more
+ * whitespace characters.
+ */
+function escapeLeadingChars(text) {
+  return text.replace(/^\s*([-#*>=|]| {4,}|`{3,})/, '$`\\$1');
+}
+
+
+/**
+ * escapeCommonChars
+ *
+ * Escapes active markdown entities. See escape pattern groups for details on
+ * which entities are replaced.
+ */
+function escapeCommonChars(text) {
+  /**
+   * Generate new non-escape expression (must happen at execution time because
+   * we use `RegExp.exec`, which tracks it's own state internally).
+   */
+  const nonEscapeExpression = new RegExp(nonEscapePattern, 'gm');
+
+  /**
+   * Use `replaceWhen` to escape markdown entities only within substrings that
+   * are eligible for escaping.
+   */
+  return replaceWhen(nonEscapeExpression, escapeAll, text, true);
+}
+
+
+/**
+ * escapeDelimiters
+ *
+ * Executes `String.replace` for a given pattern, but only on the first two
+ * capture groups. Specifically intended for escaping opening (and optionally
+ * closing) markdown entities without escaping the content in between.
+ */
+function escapeDelimiters(pattern, text) {
+  return text.replace(pattern, (match, start, end) => {
+    const hasEnd = typeof end === 'string';
+    const matchSliceEnd = hasEnd ? match.length - end.length : match.length;
+    const content = match.slice(start.length, matchSliceEnd);
+    return `${escape(start)}${content}${hasEnd ? escape(end) : ''}`;
+  });
+}
+
+
+/**
+ * escape
+ *
+ * Simple replacement function for escaping markdown entities. Prepends every
+ * character in the received string with a backslash.
+ */
+function escape(delim) {
+  let result = '';
+  for (const char of delim) {
+    result += `\\${char}`;
+  }
+  return result;
+}
+
+
 /**
  * A Remark plugin for escaping markdown entities.
  *
@@ -178,90 +272,3 @@ export default function remarkEscapeMarkdownEntities() {
 
   return transform;
 }
-
-
-/**
- * Executes both the `escapeCommonChars` and `escapeLeadingChars` functions.
- */
-function escapeAllChars(text) {
-  const partiallyEscapedMarkdown = escapeCommonChars(text);
-  return escapeLeadingChars(partiallyEscapedMarkdown);
-}
-
-
-/**
- * escapeLeadingChars
- *
- * Handles escaping for characters that must be positioned at the beginning of
- * the string, such as headers and list items.
- *
- * Escapes '#', '*', '-', '>', '=', '|', and sequences of 3+ backticks or 4+
- * spaces when found at the beginning of a string, preceded by zero or more
- * whitespace characters.
- */
-function escapeLeadingChars(text) {
-  return text.replace(/^\s*([-#*>=|]| {4,}|`{3,})/, '$`\\$1');
-}
-
-
-/**
- * escapeCommonChars
- *
- * Escapes active markdown entities. See escape pattern groups for details on
- * which entities are replaced.
- */
-function escapeCommonChars(text) {
-  /**
-   * Generate new non-escape expression (must happen at execution time because
-   * we use `RegExp.exec`, which tracks it's own state internally). The
-   * non-escape expression matches substrings whose contents should not be
-   * processed for escaping.
-   */
-  const { htmlTags, preformattedHtmlBlocks } = nonEscapePatterns;
-  const joinedNonEscapePatterns = [ htmlTags, preformattedHtmlBlocks ].map(p => joinPatternSegments(p));
-  const nonEscapePattern = combinePatterns(joinedNonEscapePatterns, 'gm');
-
-  /**
-   * Create chain of successive escape functions for various markdown entities.
-   */
-  const escapeFunctions = escapePatterns.map(pattern => partial(escapeDelimiters, pattern));
-  const escapeAll = flow(escapeFunctions);
-
-  /**
-   * Use `replaceWhen` to escape markdown entities only within substrings that
-   * are eligible for escaping.
-   */
-  return replaceWhen(nonEscapePattern, escapeAll, text, true);
-}
-
-
-/**
- * escapeDelimiters
- *
- * Executes `String.replace` for a given pattern, but only on the first two
- * capture groups. Specifically intended for escaping opening (and optionally
- * closing) markdown entities without escaping the content in between.
- */
-function escapeDelimiters(pattern, text) {
-  return text.replace(pattern, (match, start, end) => {
-    const hasEnd = typeof end === 'string';
-    const matchSliceEnd = hasEnd ? match.length - end.length : match.length;
-    const content = match.slice(start.length, matchSliceEnd);
-    return `${escape(start)}${content}${hasEnd ? escape(end) : ''}`;
-  });
-}
-
-
-/**
- * escape
- *
- * Simple replacement function for escaping markdown entities. Prepends every
- * character in the received string with a backslash.
- */
-function escape(delim) {
-  let result = '';
-  for (const char of delim) {
-    result += `\\${char}`;
-  }
-  return result;
-}
diff --git a/src/lib/regexHelper.js b/src/lib/regexHelper.js
index eb7e0c30..c4b14e41 100644
--- a/src/lib/regexHelper.js
+++ b/src/lib/regexHelper.js
@@ -2,24 +2,20 @@ import { last } from 'lodash';
 
 /**
  * Joins an array of regular expressions into a single expression, without
- * altering the received expressions. Only flags passed as an argument will
- * apply to the resulting regular expression.
+ * altering the received expressions.
  */
-export function joinPatternSegments(patterns, flags = '') {
-  const pattern = patterns.map(p => p.source).join('');
-  return new RegExp(pattern, flags);
+export function joinPatternSegments(patterns) {
+  return patterns.map(p => p.source).join('');
 }
 
 
 /**
  * Combines an array of regular expressions into a single expression, wrapping
  * each in a non-capturing group and interposing alternation characters (|) so
- * that each expression is executed separately. Only flags passed as an argument
- * will apply to the resulting regular expression.
+ * that each expression is executed separately.
  */
 export function combinePatterns(patterns, flags = '') {
-  const pattern = patterns.map(p => `(?:${p.source})`).join('|');
-  return new RegExp(pattern, flags);
+  return patterns.map(p => `(?:${p.source})`).join('|');
 }