ligature request: string escape sequences

[yshavit]

A lot of languages have escape sequences for special characters, like \n for newline. It'd be great to have a ligature for these.

I don't have a good eye for visuals, so I won't suggest exactly what that ligature would be... except to maybe suggest that the backslash be made a bit lighter (or smaller? something?). A lot of IDEs already highlight these digraphs specially, making the fact that they're an escape sequence is already fairly easy to spot, so it might be nice to slightly downplay the backslash, to put focus on the letter after it (which is really the star of the show).

[dserodio]

I think a ligature for backslash sequences would reduce readability, and different languages and tools have different characters that need escaping. Regexes would be a mess if backslashes were part of ligatures.