diff --git a/dev-python/pygments-github-lexers/files/pygments-github-lexers-0.0.5-escape-sequences.patch b/dev-python/pygments-github-lexers/files/pygments-github-lexers-0.0.5-escape-sequences.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..65c90e857bb28
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-python/pygments-github-lexers/files/pygments-github-lexers-0.0.5-escape-sequences.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+diff --git a/pygments_github_lexers/github.py b/pygments_github_lexers/github.py
+index d2fa4b2..36a5c94 100644
+--- a/pygments_github_lexers/github.py
++++ b/pygments_github_lexers/github.py
+@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ class Dasm16Lexer(RegexLexer):
+ 
+     # Regexes yo
+     char = r'[a-zA-Z$._0-9@]'
+-    identifier = r'(?:[a-zA-Z$_]' + char + '*|\.' + char + '+)'
++    identifier = r'(?:[a-zA-Z$_]' + char + r'*|\.' + char + '+)'
+     number = r'[+-]?(?:0[xX][a-zA-Z0-9]+|\d+)'
+     binary_number = r'0b[01_]+'
+     instruction = r'(?i)(' + '|'.join(INSTRUCTIONS) + ')'
+@@ -379,7 +379,7 @@ class TOMLLexer(RegexLexer):
+             (r'#.*?$', Comment.Single),
+             (r'"(\\\\|\\"|[^"])*"', String),
+             (r'(true|false)$', Keyword.Constant),
+-            ('[a-zA-Z_][a-zA-Z0-9_\-]*', Name),
++            (r'[a-zA-Z_][a-zA-Z0-9_\-]*', Name),
+ 
+             # Datetime
+             (r'\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}T\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2}Z', Number.Integer),
diff --git a/dev-python/pygments-github-lexers/metadata.xml b/dev-python/pygments-github-lexers/metadata.xml
index ad287ae27558f..90e6c7f88d464 100644
--- a/dev-python/pygments-github-lexers/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/pygments-github-lexers/metadata.xml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
     <name>Patrick McLean</name>
   </maintainer>
   <upstream>
-    <remote-id type="pypi">pygments-github-lexers </remote-id>
+    <remote-id type="pypi">pygments-github-lexers</remote-id>
     <remote-id type="github">liluo/pygments-github-lexers</remote-id>
   </upstream>
 </pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-python/pygments-github-lexers/pygments-github-lexers-0.0.5-r1.ebuild b/dev-python/pygments-github-lexers/pygments-github-lexers-0.0.5-r2.ebuild
similarity index 74%
rename from dev-python/pygments-github-lexers/pygments-github-lexers-0.0.5-r1.ebuild
rename to dev-python/pygments-github-lexers/pygments-github-lexers-0.0.5-r2.ebuild
index c367787797d7e..dba3d03278671 100644
--- a/dev-python/pygments-github-lexers/pygments-github-lexers-0.0.5-r1.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/pygments-github-lexers/pygments-github-lexers-0.0.5-r2.ebuild
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
-# Copyright 2019-2023 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 2019-2024 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=8
 
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{9..11} pypy3 )
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{10..12} pypy3 )
 DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=setuptools
 inherit distutils-r1
 
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ SRC_URI="https://github.com/liluo/${PN}/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.gh.tar.gz"
 LICENSE="BSD-2"
 SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
-IUSE=""
 
 RDEPEND="
 	dev-python/pygments[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
@@ -23,4 +22,8 @@ BDEPEND="
 	${RDEPEND}
 "
 
+PATCHES=(
+	"${FILESDIR}/pygments-github-lexers-0.0.5-escape-sequences.patch"
+)
+
 # no tests