Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [MERGE REQUEST] changeset translation preparatory work

[Jamie Wilkinson]

This one time, at band camp, Tom Lord wrote:
>
>    > From: Jamie Wilkinson <address@hidden>
>
>    > Colin, I think this is a great idea.
>
>    > I personally much prefer the hidden directory over the plainly visible,
>
>There is no such thing as a hidden or plainly visible directory except
>through the eyes of `ls(1)' and programs designed to (more or less)
>emulate or elaborate upon the behavior of `ls(1)'.
>
>"Some guy", sitting in a really ugly lab, decades ago, made up the
>dot-file convention and it happened to be a very popular idea.  Swell.
>That's hardly the last word customizable directory displays.
>
>You want arch control dirs to be hidden?  Change the thing that's
>displaying them rather than forcing the application to change the name
>of the directory it uses.
>
>(What's visible by default and what's not is, no doubt, a
>user-specific option.  It would be handy to have a way to specify your
>preferences that `ls(1)' and all related tools could understand.)

Your opinion is duly noted.

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