diff --git a/sc/storeLispOn.sc b/sc/storeLispOn.sc
index 9178207..046d567 100644
--- a/sc/storeLispOn.sc
+++ b/sc/storeLispOn.sc
@@ -41,7 +41,9 @@
 		^this
 	}
 	storeLispOn { arg stream;
-		stream.put($").putAll(this.escapeChar($")).put($")
+		// note, extra space after \\ is for emacs paren matching
+		// not syntactically significant
+		stream.put($").putAll(this.escapeChar($").escapeChar($\\ )).put($")
 	}
 }