Re: face vs. mouse-face text property

[Lennart Borgman]

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 15:27, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 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?