Re: face vs. mouse-face text property

[Stefan Monnier]

>>> 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?


        Stefan