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Re:Dotfiles being hidden is a UNIXv2 mistake (2012) by nequo on Thursday August 11, 2022 @03:17PM (#32430433)
But the abstraction that is the text editor is shared across many programs. You can use your favorite text editor to edit any of the plain-text configs that you need. Firefox’s about: and the way to edit it are specific to Firefox.
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Re:Dotfiles being hidden is a UNIXv2 mistake (2012) by Quekid5 on Friday August 12, 2022 @06:46PM (#32444870)
Well, yes, but we were imagining a world with a sort of universal "about:", I think?

You wouldn't even need that many basic types to cover about 90%+ of the state space. Of course, there would be bonus points if applications could define their own types in a UI-meaningful way.

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