diff -Nru cl-interpol-0.2.5/CHANGELOG cl-interpol-0.2.6/CHANGELOG
--- cl-interpol-0.2.5/CHANGELOG	2015-11-22 08:23:51.000000000 +0000
+++ cl-interpol-0.2.6/CHANGELOG	2016-08-26 06:15:21.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+Version 0.2.6
+2016-08-26
+Merge pull request #5 from agrostis/master (Hans Hübner)
+Followup to 100efc6: added documentation and tests. (Boris Smilga)
+Followup to 100efc6: ignore non-newline whitespaces only, as per CLHS 22.3.9.3. (Boris Smilga)
+Merge pull request #4 from agrostis/master (Hans Hübner)
+Backspace + newline as an escape sequence emulating tilde + newline in CL:FORMAT. (Boris Smilga)
+
 Version 0.2.5
 2015-11-22
 Fix docstring as suggested by Stas (Hans Hübner)
@@ -32,7 +40,7 @@
 
 Version 0.1.1
 2003-12-21
-Fixed an embarrassing bug where COLLECTOR was re-used in read.lisp (reported by Hans Hübner)
+Fixed an embarrassing bug where COLLECTOR was re-used in read.lisp (reported by Hans Hübner)
 More tests, better failure reporting
 Tried to increase readability of docs
 Mentioned Debian and Gentoo in docs
diff -Nru cl-interpol-0.2.5/cl-interpol.asd cl-interpol-0.2.6/cl-interpol.asd
--- cl-interpol-0.2.5/cl-interpol.asd	2015-11-22 08:23:51.000000000 +0000
+++ cl-interpol-0.2.6/cl-interpol.asd	2016-08-26 06:15:21.000000000 +0000
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
 (in-package :cl-interpol-asd)
 
 (defsystem :cl-interpol
-  :version "0.2.5"
+  :version "0.2.6"
   :serial t
   :depends-on (:cl-unicode)
   :components ((:file "packages")
diff -Nru cl-interpol-0.2.5/debian/changelog cl-interpol-0.2.6/debian/changelog
--- cl-interpol-0.2.5/debian/changelog	2016-01-17 16:31:28.000000000 +0000
+++ cl-interpol-0.2.6/debian/changelog	2016-11-20 16:45:33.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+cl-interpol (0.2.6-1) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Quicklisp release update.
+
+ -- Dimitri Fontaine <dim@tapoueh.org>  Sun, 20 Nov 2016 19:45:33 +0300
+
 cl-interpol (0.2.5-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * Quicklisp release update.
diff -Nru cl-interpol-0.2.5/doc/index.html cl-interpol-0.2.6/doc/index.html
--- cl-interpol-0.2.5/doc/index.html	2015-11-22 08:23:51.000000000 +0000
+++ cl-interpol-0.2.6/doc/index.html	2016-08-26 06:15:21.000000000 +0000
@@ -217,11 +217,10 @@
 is intended to be usable with <a
 href="http://weitz.de/cl-ppcre/">CL-PPCRE</a>.
 
-<h4><a name="backslash" class=none>Backslashes</a></h4>
-Here's a short summary of what might occur after a backslash, copied
-verbatim from <code>man&nbsp;perlop</code>. Details below - you can
-click on the entries in this table to go to the corresponding
-paragraph.
+<h4><a name="backslash" class=none>Backslashes</a></h4> Here's a short
+summary of what might occur after a backslash, originally copied
+from <code>man&nbsp;perlop</code>. Details below - you can
+click on the entries in this table to go to the corresponding paragraph.
 
 <pre class=none>
   <a class=none href="#tab">\t          tab             (HT, TAB)
@@ -243,6 +242,8 @@
   \U          uppercase till \E
   \E          end case modification</a>
   <a class=none href="#quote">\Q          quote non-word characters till \E</a>
+
+  <a class=none href="#ignl">\<span style="border:1px solid #a0a0a0">&#x2424;</span>          ignore the newline and following whitespaces</a>
 </pre>
 <p>
 <a class=none name="tab">If</a> a backslash is followed by
@@ -417,6 +418,29 @@
 </pre>
 
 Quoting characters with <code class=yellow>\Q</code> is especially helpful if you want to <a href="#interpolation">interpolate</a> a string verbatim into a <a href="#regular">regular expression</a>.
+
+<p>
+  <a class=none name="ignl">If</a> a backslash is placed at the end of a line, it works as the <a href="http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/22_cic.htm">tilde newline</a> directive to Common Lisp's <code>FORMAT</code> function. That is, the newline immediately following the backslash and any non-newline whitespace characters after the newline are ignored. This escape sequence allows to break long string literals into several lines of code, so as to maintain convenient line width and indentation of code.
+<pre>
+* #?&quot;@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@\n Th\n-e\n+at\n  quick b\n\
+     @@ -22,18 +22,17 @@\n jump\n-s\n+ed\n  over \n\
+     -the\n+a\n  laz\n&quot;
+&quot;@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
+ Th
+-e
++at
+  quick b
+@@ -22,18 +22,17 @@
+ jump
+-s
++ed
+  over 
+-the
++a
+  laz
+&quot;
+</pre>
+
 <p>
 All other characters following a backslash are left as is and inserted into the string. This is also true for the backslash itself, for <code class=yellow>$</code>, <code class=yellow>@</code>, and - as mentioned above - for the <a href="#outer">outer closing delimiter</a>.
 <pre>
diff -Nru cl-interpol-0.2.5/read.lisp cl-interpol-0.2.6/read.lisp
--- cl-interpol-0.2.5/read.lisp	2015-11-22 08:23:51.000000000 +0000
+++ cl-interpol-0.2.6/read.lisp	2016-08-26 06:15:21.000000000 +0000
@@ -137,6 +137,12 @@
                         ;; now \x should be followed by an octal char
                         ;; code, three digits or less
                         (make-char-from-code (get-number :radix 8 :max 3)))))
+              ((#\Newline)
+                (read-while
+                  (lambda (c)
+                    (or (char= c #\Space)
+                        (not (or (graphic-char-p c) (char= c #\Newline))))))
+                "")
               ;; the following five character names are
               ;; 'semi-standard' according to the CLHS but I'm not
               ;; aware of any implementation that doesn't implement
diff -Nru cl-interpol-0.2.5/test/simple cl-interpol-0.2.6/test/simple
--- cl-interpol-0.2.5/test/simple	2015-11-22 08:23:51.000000000 +0000
+++ cl-interpol-0.2.6/test/simple	2016-08-26 06:15:21.000000000 +0000
@@ -78,6 +78,10 @@
 
 (char= (char #?"\N{Newline}" 0) #\Newline)
 
+;; ignored newline
+(string= #?"abc\
+   def" "abcdef")
+
 (string= #?/\1/ "\\1")
 (string= #?r"\1" "\\1")
 (string= #?r"\k<foo>" "\\k<foo>")