Re: face vs. mouse-face text property

[Lennart Borgman]

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 16:34, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> Therefore, I think if we want to be able to display selectable
>>>> newlines, we need to have a special way to display such newlines,
>>>> e.g. "<NL>" or some such.
>>> I'd suggest \n rather than <NL>, since it's already used at many other
>>> places in Emacs (tho it's not often visible to the "end user").
>> Why not show "\n" with a special background face?
>
> Which part of (propertize "\\n" 'face 'escape-glyph) makes you think
> that we wouldn't want to show \n with a special background face?

;-)   Sorry.