Re: Gnus not escaping NBSP and soft-hyphen

[Miles Bader <snogglethorpe@gmail.com>]

> >> This shows that show-trailing-whitespace is flexible enough to allow arbitrary
> >> customization, but escape-glyph is not.  There is a need for a buffer-local
> >> variable similar to show-trailing-whitespace to enable/disable highlighting
> >> of control characters and nbsp with escape-glyph face on a per-buffer basis.
> >
> > What's wrong with `show-nonbreak-space'?
> 
> I thought that two new face variables (e.g. `escape-glyph-face' and
> `nobreak-space-face') would be useful to imitate buffer-local faces.
> I guess users might want to use different faces for control characters
> or nbsp in different buffers, or to set `escape-glyph-face' to the default
> face to not highlight control characters in some buffers.

A "face variable" isn't flexible enough, as it wouldn't allow the
"preceeding escape character" variant.   As for normal
escape-characters, why are they important enough to warrant a separate
variable controlling their appearance?  Typical "pretty" text doesn't
contain them at all (and if they occur, it's an error).

-Miles
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