diff --git a/gensettings.py b/gensettings.py
index a0a20908..8d68b4b5 100644
--- a/gensettings.py
+++ b/gensettings.py
@@ -881,38 +881,6 @@ gensettingstf = [
     "classname": "system",
     "name": "seed",
     "extra_classes": "var_sync_alt_system_seed_specified",
-    "ui_level": 2
-	},
-    {
-	"uitype": "text",
-	"unit": "text",
-	"label": "comregex_ai_string",
-	"id": "comregex_ai_string", 
-	"min": 0,
-	"max": 1,
-	"step": 1,
-	"default": 1,
-    "tooltip": "Pattern for matching comments to remove them before sending them to the AI.",
-    "menu_path": "Settings",
-    "sub_path": "Other",
-    "classname": "system",
-    "name": "comregex_ai_string",
-    "ui_level": 2
-	},
-    {
-	"uitype": "text",
-	"unit": "text",
-	"label": "comregex_ui_string",
-	"id": "comregex_ui_string", 
-	"min": 0,
-	"max": 1,
-	"step": 1,
-	"default": 1,
-    "tooltip": "Pattern for matching comments in the editor.",
-    "menu_path": "Settings",
-    "sub_path": "Other",
-    "classname": "system",
-    "name": "comregex_ui_string",
     "ui_level": 2
 	},
     {
diff --git a/koboldai_settings.py b/koboldai_settings.py
index 407ae1e1..06a15e4e 100644
--- a/koboldai_settings.py
+++ b/koboldai_settings.py
@@ -1203,9 +1203,9 @@ class undefined_settings(settings):
 
 class system_settings(settings):
     local_only_variables = ['lua_state', 'lua_logname', 'lua_koboldbridge', 'lua_kobold', 
-                            'lua_koboldcore', 'regex_sl', 'acregex_ai', 'acregex_ui', 'comregex_ai', 'comregex_ui',
+                            'lua_koboldcore', 'regex_sl', 'acregex_ai', 'acregex_ui', 'comregex_ai', 
                             'sp', '_horde_pid', 'inference_config', 'image_pipeline', 
-                            'summarizer', 'summary_tokenizer', 'tts_model', 'rng_states']
+                            'summarizer', 'summary_tokenizer', 'tts_model', 'rng_states', 'comregex_ai', 'comregex_ui']
     no_save_variables = ['lua_state', 'lua_logname', 'lua_koboldbridge', 'lua_kobold', 
                          'lua_koboldcore', 'sp', 'sp_length', '_horde_pid', 'horde_share', 'aibusy', 
                          'serverstarted', 'inference_config', 'image_pipeline', 'summarizer', 
@@ -1252,10 +1252,8 @@ class system_settings(settings):
         self.regex_sl    = re.compile(r'\n*(?<=.) *\n(.|\n)*')  # Pattern for limiting the output to a single line
         self.acregex_ai  = re.compile(r'\n* *>(.|\n)*')  # Pattern for matching adventure actions from the AI so we can remove them
         self.acregex_ui  = re.compile(r'^ *(&gt;.*)$', re.MULTILINE)    # Pattern for matching actions in the HTML-escaped story so we can apply colouring, etc (make sure to encase part to format in parentheses)
-        self.comregex_ai_string = '(?:\n\[<\|(?:.|\n)*?\|>\](?=\n|$))|(?:\[<\|(?:.|\n)*?\|>\]\n?)' # Pattern for matching comments to remove them before sending them to the AI
-        self.comregex_ui_string = '(\[&lt;\|(?:.|\n)*?\|&gt;\])' # Pattern for matching comments in the editor
-        self.comregex_ai = re.compile(self.comregex_ai_string)  # Pattern for matching comments to remove them before sending them to the AI
-        self.comregex_ui = re.compile(self.comregex_ui_string)  # Pattern for matching comments in the editor
+        self.comregex_ai = re.compile(r'(?:\n\[<\|(?:.|\n)*?\|>\](?=\n|$))|(?:\[<\|(?:.|\n)*?\|>\]\n?)')  # Pattern for matching comments to remove them before sending them to the AI
+        self.comregex_ui = re.compile(r'(\[&lt;\|(?:.|\n)*?\|&gt;\])')  # Pattern for matching comments in the editor
         self.host        = False
         self.flaskwebgui = False
         self.quiet       = False # If set will suppress any story text from being printed to the console (will only be seen on the client web page)
@@ -1342,12 +1340,6 @@ class system_settings(settings):
                 self._socketio.emit('from_server', {'cmd': 'spstatitems', 'data': {self.spfilename: self.spmeta} if self.allowsp and len(self.spfilename) else {}}, namespace=None, broadcast=True, room="UI_1")
                 super().__setattr__("sp_changed", False)
             
-            if name == 'comregex_ai_string':
-                self.comregex_ai = re.compile(self.comregex_ai_string)
-            
-            if name == 'comregex_ui_string':
-                self.comregex_ui = re.compile(self.comregex_ui_string)
-            
             if name == 'keep_img_gen_in_memory' and value == False:
                 self.image_pipeline = None