From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Displaying a string as another one
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2020 11:05:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8736a88viy.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
Hi all,
I have a buffer with long lines, containing many instances of strings
"\\n" and "\\t" (i.e., a literal backslash followed by "n" or "t"). I'd
like Emacs to display them as a newline and a tab, respectively. These
instances occur inside strings (i.e., between quotes, which delimit
strings in JavaScript).
I tried
(setq prettify-symbols-alist '(("\\n" . ?\n) ("\\t" . ?\t)))
but this does not seem to work inside strings.
I suspect font-lock could do it, but I'm not sure how (and frankly,
I don't have time now to do many experiments).
Does anyone have a ready-made solution?
TIA,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl
next reply other threads:[~2020-03-16 10:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-16 10:05 Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2020-03-16 15:58 ` Displaying a string as another one Stefan Monnier
2020-03-21 14:11 ` Marcin Borkowski
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