They're not hard to view in Windows either. Just set Explorer to show hidden and system files in folder options.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Jesse Phillips <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jesse.k.phillips@gmail.com">jesse.k.phillips@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">There is a push to move program configuration files for $HOME into<br>
.config/program then leaving the file itself unhidden.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
"I've never liked the configuration files being hidden. It's freaking annoying"<br>
<br>
</div>$ ls -a<br>
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or most GUI browser it is an option in the right-click menu.<br>
<br>
Really Linux does not have "hidden" files, it has configuration files<br>
which it hides, but they are always easy to view unlike in Windows.<br>
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On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 7:31 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu <<a href="mailto:andrei@erdani.com">andrei@erdani.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Correct. That's what I've always meant: only hide the file in $HOME.<br>
><br>
> Andrei<br>
><br>
> On 1/28/11 9:21 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 09:14:26AM -0600, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>> It doesn't quite matter what you and I like or not. Everybody on Unix<br>
>>> does it that way ever since .profile.<br>
>><br>
>> If the file is in $HOME, and sometimes if in the current working<br>
>> directory.<br>
>><br>
>> program.conf is common if the file resides in its own directory (including<br>
>> dot directories under home) or /etc.<br>
>><br>
>> The website lists these locations:<br>
>><br>
>> 1.current working directory<br>
>> 2.directory specified by the HOME environment variable<br>
>> 3.directory dmd resides in<br>
>> 4./etc/<br>
>><br>
>> (1) and (2) might be renamed, but (3) and (4) certainly shouldn't be.<br>
>><br>
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