Vite's dep pre-bundling runs esbuild's lite parser over .vue script blocks
to find imports. On esbuild 0.27.5 that parser interprets the
HTML-style sequence `<!--` inside a JS string/regex literal as the start
of a legacy line comment, which made it conflate two unrelated string
literals on lines 95 and 110 of MemoryBrowser.vue and report a fake
"Unterminated string literal" against a phantom line that doesn't exist
in the source.
Replacing the raw `<` with `\x3c` keeps the runtime behavior identical
(includes/regex match the same `<!-- user-edited` marker) but breaks the
HTML-comment heuristic so the scanner no longer chokes. The two call
sites — userEdited detection in parseSections and the strip regex in
stripMarker — both need the escape.
Repro: `pnpm dev` from a cold cache surfaces the error during dep scan,
runtime tests passed already because the actual JS parser handles the
strings fine.
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