diff --git a/src/packages/toml.tmbundle/Syntaxes/toml.cson b/src/packages/toml.tmbundle/Syntaxes/toml.cson
index 9eac5c13f..6aa5fb542 100644
--- a/src/packages/toml.tmbundle/Syntaxes/toml.cson
+++ b/src/packages/toml.tmbundle/Syntaxes/toml.cson
@@ -22,6 +22,10 @@
     'endCaptures':
       '0': 'name': 'string.end.toml'
     'name': 'string.toml'
+    'patterns': [
+      'match': '\\\\[nt0r"\\\\]'
+      'name' : 'constant.character.escape.toml'
+    ]
   }
   {
     'match': '#.*$'
diff --git a/src/packages/toml.tmbundle/spec/toml-spec.coffee b/src/packages/toml.tmbundle/spec/toml-spec.coffee
index cbfe8bf76..576879912 100644
--- a/src/packages/toml.tmbundle/spec/toml-spec.coffee
+++ b/src/packages/toml.tmbundle/spec/toml-spec.coffee
@@ -23,6 +23,13 @@ describe "TOML grammar", ->
     expect(tokens[1]).toEqual value: 'I am a string', scopes: ["source.toml", "string.toml"]
     expect(tokens[2]).toEqual value: '"', scopes: ["source.toml", "string.toml","string.end.toml"]
 
+    {tokens} = grammar.tokenizeLine('"I\'m \\n escaped"')
+    expect(tokens[0]).toEqual value: '"', scopes: ["source.toml", "string.toml", "string.begin.toml"]
+    expect(tokens[1]).toEqual value: "I'm ", scopes: ["source.toml", "string.toml"]
+    expect(tokens[2]).toEqual value: "\\n", scopes: ["source.toml", "string.toml", "constant.character.escape.toml"]
+    expect(tokens[3]).toEqual value: " escaped", scopes: ["source.toml", "string.toml"]
+    expect(tokens[4]).toEqual value: '"', scopes: ["source.toml", "string.toml", "string.end.toml"]
+
   it "tokenizes booleans", ->
     {tokens} = grammar.tokenizeLine("true")
     expect(tokens[0]).toEqual value: "true", scopes: ["source.toml", "constant.language.boolean.true.toml"]