Ahh ok, I can reproduce, and just fixed this (it'll need both a new IDE and firmware) - so just to be clear:
E.setFlags({pretokenise: 1})
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Ahh ok, I can reproduce, and just fixed this (it'll need both a new IDE and firmware) - so just to be clear:
E.setFlags({pretokenise: 1})
(pretokenisation in Espruino) works fine