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Re:Dotfiles being hidden is a UNIXv2 mistake (2012) by user3939382 on Thursday August 11, 2022 @02:53PM (#32430130)
If I ever find time to play with hacking the kernel my first project is to create an extension that automatically redirects all file system lookups for ~/.* to ~/.config/*

I’ll even forgo having my own hidden files there, I don’t care. It’s so annoying.

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Re:Dotfiles being hidden is a UNIXv2 mistake (2012) by the_gipsy on Thursday August 11, 2022 @02:54PM (#32430155)
Don't forget to add the `.config` exception!
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Re:Dotfiles being hidden is a UNIXv2 mistake (2012) by SAI_Peregrinus on Friday August 12, 2022 @09:17PM (#32445958)
So you WANT ~/.cache/ in ~/.config/? It's enough of a nightmare when Electron-based apps litter their folders in ~/.config with service worker caches, that'd make it even worse. It's annoying to need a gigantic .gitignore for all the cache files in ~/.config IMO.
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Re:Dotfiles being hidden is a UNIXv2 mistake (2012) by layer8 on Thursday August 11, 2022 @04:20PM (#32431230)
How about glob symlinks as a filesystem feature? :)

  ln -sg '~/config/*' '~/.*'
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