Lars Ingebrigtsen writes: > Mauro Aranda writes: > >> Those are good points. A couple of questions: >> - Do we change the display for the space character as well? >> >> We could display it as ?\s, or leave it as " ", which makes the >> character widget appear empty, when it's not. >> >> - What do we do with the other escape sequences, like ?\r and ?\f? >> >> Right now, we display those as ^M and ^L respectively. If we keep this >> representation, maybe somebody will feel there is some inconsistency, >> because some characters we display as ^M, while others as \n. Perhaps >> is not a big deal, though. > > We should definitely strive for consistency here... \r and \f for ^M > and ^L is fine by me (although I guess more people are familiar with ^L > than \f). > > As for space... Hm. It's unfortunate that it's displayed just as a > blank, so displaying it as \s would definitely make sense. But it also > sounds a bit confusing. :-/ Could we ... use a different background > colour on the space to indicate that it's there? I guess that's not all > that easy to interpret, either... I don't think that a different background colour will be much of a gain. It will just look like the widget has a different background color...After editing the widget it might be easier to interpret what's going on, but then again the same can be said with the current state.