[phobos] problem solved

[David Simcha]

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
<jesse.k.phillips at gmail.com>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 <andrei at erdani.com>
> 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.
> >>
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