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miswart
(foldoc) | miswart
/mis-wort/ [By analogy with misbug] A feature that
superficially appears to be a wart but has been determined
to be the Right Thing. For example, in some versions of the
Emacs text editor, the "transpose characters" command
exchanges the character under the cursor with the one before
it on the screen, *except* when the cursor is at the end of a
line, in which case the two characters before the cursor are
exchanged. While this behaviour is perhaps surprising, and
certainly inconsistent, it has been found through extensive
experimentation to be what most users want. This feature is a
miswart.
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miswart
(jargon) | miswart
/mis·wort/, n.
[from wart by analogy with misbug] A feature that superficially
appears to be a wart but has been determined to be the Right Thing. For
example, in some versions of the EMACS text editor, the ‘transpose
characters’ command exchanges the character under the cursor with the one
before it on the screen, except when the cursor is at the end of a line, in
which case the two characters before the cursor are exchanged. While this
behavior is perhaps surprising, and certainly inconsistent, it has been
found through extensive experimentation to be what most users want. This
feature is a miswart.
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