Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> Let me turn the table and ask you: why do you think that '\' is not
> the usual continuation glyph that Emacs always produces when the width
> of a screen line on a TTY frame is exceeded?

I think I finally understand what the reporter means.  To reproduce:

emacs -Q -nw
M-: and then enter enough text that you have ten lines of stuff in the
minibuffer.

It'll look like this: