diff --git a/src/RichText.js b/src/RichText.js
index d218e698a6..c0d80d2ec7 100644
--- a/src/RichText.js
+++ b/src/RichText.js
@@ -21,6 +21,15 @@ const STYLES = {
     UNDERLINE: 'u'
 };
 
+const MARKDOWN_REGEX = {
+    LINK: /(?:\[([^\]]+)\]\(([^\)]+)\))|\<(\w+:\/\/[^\>]+)\>/g,
+    ITALIC: /([\*_])([\w\s]+?)\1/g,
+    BOLD: /([\*_])\1([\w\s]+?)\1\1/g
+};
+
+const USERNAME_REGEX = /@\S+:\S+/g;
+const ROOM_REGEX = /#\S+:\S+/g;
+
 export function contentStateToHTML(contentState: ContentState): string {
     return contentState.getBlockMap().map((block) => {
         let elem = BLOCK_RENDER_MAP.get(block.getType()).element;
@@ -46,9 +55,6 @@ export function HTMLtoContentState(html: string): ContentState {
     return ContentState.createFromBlockArray(convertFromHTML(html));
 }
 
-const USERNAME_REGEX = /@\S+:\S+/g;
-const ROOM_REGEX = /#\S+:\S+/g;
-
 /**
  * Returns a composite decorator which has access to provided scope.
  */
@@ -108,12 +114,6 @@ export function getScopedMDDecorators(scope: any): CompositeDecorator {
     return markdownDecorators;
 }
 
-const MARKDOWN_REGEX = {
-    LINK: /(?:\[([^\]]+)\]\(([^\)]+)\))|\<(\w+:\/\/[^\>]+)\>/g,
-    ITALIC: /([\*_])([\w\s]+?)\1/g,
-    BOLD: /([\*_])\1([\w\s]+?)\1\1/g
-};
-
 /**
  * Utility function that looks for regex matches within a ContentBlock and invokes {callback} with (start, end)
  * From https://facebook.github.io/draft-js/docs/advanced-topics-decorators.html