From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda@gmail.com>
Cc: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>,
15925@debbugs.gnu.org, claudio.bley@googlemail.com
Subject: bug#15925: 24.3.50; error when customizing whitespace-display-mappings
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2020 16:38:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871rirb5ot.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABczVweQk+Jiiix62mS49n1zoHNn-6uifOEB1H4==EKNSV970g@mail.gmail.com> (Mauro Aranda's message of "Wed, 23 Sep 2020 12:26:39 -0300")
Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda@gmail.com> writes:
> Yes. I think there were two suggestions, which if I'm not mistaken can
> be summarized as:
> - Display newline as \n, tab as \t, etc.
> - Display newline as C-j (or ?\\C-j, or \\C-j, etc), tab as C-i, etc.
>
> To those suggestions, I add one of mine:
> - Display newline as ^J, tab as ^I, etc.
>
> That is what Isearch does, and I think it would not be much of a
> trouble to implement that. Furthermore, we already display other
> non-printable characters like that, so my suggestion would just
> change newline and tab, I think.
Isearch is a bit special here (being interactive)...
My guess is that more people understand that \n is newline than people
remember that ^J is newline. (The same goes for \t/^I, but probably to
a lesser degree.)
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-19 7:37 bug#15925: 24.3.50; error when customizing whitespace-display-mappings Claudio Bley
2013-11-19 8:24 ` Glenn Morris
2013-11-20 10:35 ` Claudio Bley
2013-11-20 19:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-22 15:42 ` Mauro Aranda
2020-09-23 13:46 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-23 15:26 ` Mauro Aranda
2020-09-24 14:38 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2020-09-24 15:29 ` Mauro Aranda
2020-09-24 15:36 ` Mauro Aranda
2020-09-25 10:00 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-25 11:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-25 11:10 ` Mauro Aranda
2020-09-25 14:32 ` Mauro Aranda
2020-09-26 13:24 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-26 13:26 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-26 13:45 ` Mauro Aranda
2020-09-26 15:10 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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2020-09-25 16:07 ` Drew Adams
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