Subject: Highlight escape character sequences in isearch and query-replace

From: Juri Linkov <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2009 00:14:38 +0300

Normally characters sequences using `^' are displayed in the
`escape-glyph' face.  However, in isearch and query-replace that both
use `isearch-text-char-description' it is hard to distinguish
escape character sequences visually because they are not highlighted.
Here is a fix:

Index: lisp/isearch.el
===================================================================
RCS file: /sources/emacs/emacs/lisp/isearch.el,v
retrieving revision 1.346
diff -u -r1.346 isearch.el
--- lisp/isearch.el	1 Sep 2009 07:24:19 -0000	1.346
+++ lisp/isearch.el	4 Sep 2009 21:12:37 -0000
@@ -2496,8 +2501,8 @@
 
 (defun isearch-text-char-description (c)
   (cond
-   ((< c ?\s) (format "^%c" (+ c 64)))
-   ((= c ?\^?) "^?")
+   ((< c ?\s) (propertize (format "^%c" (+ c 64)) 'face 'escape-glyph))
+   ((= c ?\^?) (propertize "^?" 'face 'escape-glyph))
    (t (char-to-string c))))
 
 ;; General function to unread characters or events.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/