They're not hard to view in Windows either. Just set Explorer to show hidden and system files in folder options.
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Jesse Phillips <[email protected]>wrote: > There is a push to move program configuration files for $HOME into > .config/program then leaving the file itself unhidden. > > "I've never liked the configuration files being hidden. It's freaking > annoying" > > $ ls -a > > or most GUI browser it is an option in the right-click menu. > > Really Linux does not have "hidden" files, it has configuration files > which it hides, but they are always easy to view unlike in Windows. > > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 7:31 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Correct. That's what I've always meant: only hide the file in $HOME. > > > > Andrei > > > > On 1/28/11 9:21 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: > >> > >> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 09:14:26AM -0600, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > >>> > >>> It doesn't quite matter what you and I like or not. Everybody on Unix > >>> does it that way ever since .profile. > >> > >> If the file is in $HOME, and sometimes if in the current working > >> directory. > >> > >> program.conf is common if the file resides in its own directory > (including > >> dot directories under home) or /etc. > >> > >> The website lists these locations: > >> > >> 1.current working directory > >> 2.directory specified by the HOME environment variable > >> 3.directory dmd resides in > >> 4./etc/ > >> > >> (1) and (2) might be renamed, but (3) and (4) certainly shouldn't be. > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> phobos mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/phobos > > > > _______________________________________________ > > phobos mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/phobos > > > > > > -- > Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. > - George Bernard Shaw > _______________________________________________ > phobos mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/phobos >
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