diff --git a/mode/coffeescript/coffeescript.js b/mode/coffeescript/coffeescript.js
index 1b96f85d86062f6ae16d0139998817a60c120902..adf2184fd7da5cc8463cfecb0843ce245f0e89bf 100644
--- a/mode/coffeescript/coffeescript.js
+++ b/mode/coffeescript/coffeescript.js
@@ -267,17 +267,6 @@ CodeMirror.defineMode("coffeescript", function(conf, parserConf) {
     var style = state.tokenize(stream, state);
     var current = stream.current();
 
-    // Handle "." connected identifiers
-    if (false && current === ".") {
-      style = state.tokenize(stream, state);
-      current = stream.current();
-      if (/^\.[\w$]+$/.test(current)) {
-        return "variable";
-      } else {
-        return ERRORCLASS;
-      }
-    }
-
     // Handle scope changes.
     if (current === "return") {
       state.dedent = true;