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As a user I would like to be able to attach my .vimrc, .bashrc, etc to emails to colleagues so they can see what I have in my settings.
by fnord123 6y ago
As a user I would like to be able to attach my .vimrc, .bashrc, etc to emails to colleagues so they can see what I have in my settings.
- Someone 6y agoIn general, end users don’t even have a .vimrc, .bashrc, etc. If you even know these things exist, you’re an exception.
- ant6n 6y agoTrue. Most users will have a .emacs file.
- fnord123 6y agoMac installs vim and bash by default but seeing their configuration files in Finder is spooky and not normal? It's not a terribly convincing argument that there should be no context menu in the Open File dialog window for showing/hiding hidden files.
- yagya 6y agoWell, they switched to zsh, but yeah.
- zepto 6y agoThere is no GUI version of Vim or Bash provided. They are expected to be used via the command line, where hidden files can be seen just as they can on any other Unix.
- saagarjha 6y agoWhat fraction of Mac users do you think have every used vim or bash, let alone even opened Terminal.app? Or even know that it exists?
- happymellon 6y agoAs a Mac user who uses command prompts all day every day, I don't open Terminal.app.
- Wowfunhappy 6y agoI have often wished there was a way to set certain dotfiles to be unhidden, without hiding everything. It could be done with extended attributes (which can already be used to hide a non dot file, this would just be the reverse). I don't think this would be an overly severe UNIX violation? Dot files would still be hidden by default, the extended attribute would just be an override.
- kalleboo 6y agoYeah this is a poor adaptation of unix software to macOS. Those tools ought to have their config files either moved to or symlinked into ~/Library/Preferences with non-dot-prefixed names in order to make sense on the Mac. It's a shame even Apple's ports don't do this.