Subject: Re: bug#15925: 24.3.50; error when customizing whitespace-display-mappings

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 14:28:03 -0500

> How about displaying those chars in the buffer in another format?
> E.g. use escape sequences like \n \r et cetera?

Agreed.  It could use the same syntax as used after the ? in the Elisp
source code.  I.e. the conversion would be (read-from-string (concat
"?" field)) in one direction and (substring (prin1-char char) 1) in the other.

        Stefan