Would you add feature/option to show whitespaces?
Spaces as small dots, tabs as arrows
And LF, CR, CR+LF as paragraph mark 露
This would would be an extension of the indentchar setting. I think it's probably best to implement the way Vim does with listchars with a list of all the different special characters.
And please display undisplayable Unicode characters in a hexadecimal format - it happens so often that micro puts some escape sequences into files for whatever reason (probably related to #779), but without that feature it's impossible to debug that without starting vim or basically any other editor.
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LF,CR,CR+LFas paragraph mark 露