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Linux History: How Dot Files Became Hidden Files

41 pointsby rrampageabout 3 years ago

5 comments

8bitsruleabout 3 years ago
Speaking of Linux files, there&#x27;s one feature I&#x27;d like to see in the GUI.<p>In Linux, when you drag a file to a folder and hover, you&#x27;ve got one option: drop it into that folder. Another OS I used would wait for a second, then &#x27;open&#x27; that folder so that you could drop your file into a sub-directory ... or drill down further by hovering over another. I wish!<p>Old habits die hard. Maybe that can already be done, or there&#x27;s an app or setting I&#x27;ve missed. If so, GREAT, I could quit mumbling every time.
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pjmlpabout 3 years ago
UNIX history, there isn&#x27;t anything Linux related in regards to dot files.
eternityforestabout 3 years ago
Dot files are one thing about Linux that seems to be truly timeless.<p>We might not see them directly anymore, we have GUI settings tools, but I can&#x27;t think of any better way to manage local app settings.<p>Any kind of registry model seems to always require you to learn even more stuff than just some dotfiles.<p>Normally old UNIX stuff doesn&#x27;t really fit the modern way of doing things, but dotfiles are still standing.
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voakbasdaabout 3 years ago
One problem that I have experienced recently with GitHub is that it hides these sorts of hidden files. This means that you cannot properly review the repository before checking it out. Or am I missing some hidden feature equivalent to ‘ls -a’?
rco8786about 3 years ago
Fun story! But I still don’t understand what the single ‘.’ file was meant for. How does it contribute to easy navigation?
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