diff --git a/examples/indented_tree.py b/examples/indented_tree.py
index 7d10add..c1a5bf4 100644
--- a/examples/indented_tree.py
+++ b/examples/indented_tree.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ class TreeIndenter(Indenter):
     CLOSE_PAREN_types = []
     INDENT_type = '_INDENT'
     DEDENT_type = '_DEDENT'
-    tab_len = 0
+    tab_len = 8
 
 parser = Lark(tree_grammar, parser='lalr', postlex=TreeIndenter())
 
diff --git a/lark/lark.py b/lark/lark.py
index a23cbbd..def7368 100644
--- a/lark/lark.py
+++ b/lark/lark.py
@@ -152,12 +152,12 @@ class Lark:
 
     def _build_lexer(self):
         ignore_tokens = []
-        tokens = {}
-        for name, (value, flags) in self.tokens.items():
+        tokens = []
+        for name, (value, flags) in self.tokens:
             if 'ignore' in flags:
                 ignore_tokens.append(name)
-            tokens[name] = value
-        return Lexer(tokens.items(), {}, ignore=ignore_tokens)
+            tokens.append((name, value))
+        return Lexer(tokens, {}, ignore=ignore_tokens)
 
 
     def _build_parser(self):
diff --git a/lark/lexer.py b/lark/lexer.py
index bbd3b1e..74821f1 100644
--- a/lark/lexer.py
+++ b/lark/lexer.py
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ class Lexer(object):
         self.tokens = tokens
         self.callbacks = callbacks
 
-        self.tokens.sort(key=lambda x:len(x[1]), reverse=True)
+        # self.tokens.sort(key=lambda x:len(x[1]), reverse=True)
 
         self.mres = []
         self.name_from_index = []
diff --git a/lark/load_grammar.py b/lark/load_grammar.py
index 5b4e037..49f3c86 100644
--- a/lark/load_grammar.py
+++ b/lark/load_grammar.py
@@ -1,10 +1,14 @@
 import re
+import codecs
+
 from lexer import Lexer, Token
 from grammar_analysis import GrammarAnalyzer
 from parser import Parser
 
 from tree import Tree as T, Transformer, InlineTransformer, Visitor
 
+unicode_escape = codecs.getdecoder('unicode_escape')
+
 _TOKEN_NAMES = {
     ':' : 'COLON',
     ',' : 'COMMA',
@@ -143,26 +147,18 @@ class SaveDefinitions(object):
             raise ValueError("Token '%s' defined more than once" % name)
 
         if len(x) == 4:
-            self.tokens[name] = x[2][1], []
+            self.tokens[name] = x[2], []
         else:
-            self.tokens[name] = x[3][1], x[1].children
+            self.tokens[name] = x[3], x[1].children
 
     def tokenvalue(self, tokenvalue):
-        value = tokenvalue.value[1:-1]
-        import codecs
-        decoder = codecs.getdecoder('unicode_escape')
-        if '\u' in value:
-            # XXX for now, you can't mix unicode escaping and unicode characters at the same token
-            value = decoder(value)[0]
-
-        if tokenvalue.type == 'STRING':
-            value = re.escape(value)
-        return tokenvalue, value
-
-    def anontoken(self, (token, value)):
+        return tokenvalue
+
+    def anontoken(self, token):
         if token.type == 'STRING':
+            value = token.value[1:-1]
             try:
-                token_name = _TOKEN_NAMES[token.value[1:-1]]
+                token_name = _TOKEN_NAMES[value]
             except KeyError:
                 if value.isalnum() and value[0].isalpha():
                     token_name = value.upper()
@@ -178,7 +174,7 @@ class SaveDefinitions(object):
             assert False, x
 
         if token_name not in self.tokens:
-            self.tokens[token_name] = value, []
+            self.tokens[token_name] = token, []
 
         return Token('TOKEN', token_name, -1)
 
@@ -312,6 +308,27 @@ class GrammarLoader:
         p = Parser(self.ga, c)
         p.parse( list(self.lexer.lex(grammar_text+"\n")) )
 
+        # Tokens
+        re_tokens = []
+        str_tokens = []
+        for name, (token, flags) in sd.tokens.items():
+            value = token.value[1:-1]
+            if '\u' in value:
+                # XXX for now, you can't mix unicode escaping and unicode characters at the same token
+                value = unicode_escape(value)[0]
+
+            if token.type == 'STRING':
+                value = re.escape(value)
+                str_tokens.append((name, (value, flags)))
+            else:
+                assert token.type == 'REGEXP'
+                re_tokens.append((name, (value, flags)))
+
+        str_tokens.sort(key=lambda x:len(x[1][0]), reverse=True)
+        re_tokens.sort(key=lambda x:len(x[1][0]), reverse=True)
+        tokens = str_tokens + re_tokens # Order is important!
+
+        # Rules
         ebnf_to_bnf = EBNF_to_BNF()
 
         rules = {name: ebnf_to_bnf.transform(r) for name, r in sd.rules.items()}
@@ -320,7 +337,7 @@ class GrammarLoader:
         for r in rules.values():
             self.simplify_rule.visit(r)
 
-        return sd.tokens, rules
+        return tokens, rules
 
 load_grammar = GrammarLoader().load_grammar