diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index 5f13eca5e..a473c0f40 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 New config TODO
 ===============
 
+- Writing _monospace doesn't work correctly (indented too much?)
 - How to handle interpolation correctly? Maybe we really should handle interpolation ourselves?
   Main problem: When re-writing the value, we don't know about the interpolation anymore, so we write the wrong value.
 - Tabbing through setting completion does not work
diff --git a/qutebrowser/config/config.py b/qutebrowser/config/config.py
index cd73853c6..2d4f4a37e 100644
--- a/qutebrowser/config/config.py
+++ b/qutebrowser/config/config.py
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@
 
 """Configuration storage and config-related utilities."""
 
-import re
 import os
 import os.path
 import logging
@@ -149,11 +148,6 @@ class Config:
                                               subsequent_indent=' ' * 4,
                                               drop_whitespace=False,
                                               **self._wrapper_args)
-        # Other than the default TextWrapper would, we want to count a word and
-        # the whitespace following it as one chunk, so lines will always be
-        # split *after* whitespace, because whitespace at the beginning of a
-        # line could confuse configparser. Monkeypatching ftw!
-        keyval_wrapper.wordsep_simple_re = re.compile(r'(\S+\s*)')
         lines = []
         for optname, option in section.items():
             keyval = '{} = {}'.format(optname, option)