dot-files

[Robert J. Chassell]

Calling dot-files `hidden' is misleading.  They are used for
configuration.  I like seeing them.  That is why I use the default
value of dired-listing-switches "-al".  As David Kastrup says,
dot-files `are supposed to be auxiliary data, not content'.

(I know there is an tradition to call dot-files hidden; but I think it
is and always has been a mistake.)  

I have many more dot-files dot-files in my home directory than I
expected, 922 according to dired running ~/.* .  That number includes
backups for files such as ~/.bashrc and files such as ~/.xinitrc-test
along with its backups.

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