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miswart
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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/miswort/ , n. [from wart by analogy with misbug ] A feature that
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superficially appears to be a wart but has been determined to be the Right
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Thing. For example, in some versions of the EMACS text editor, the transpose
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characters command exchanges the character under the cursor with the one
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before it on the screen, except when the cursor is at the end of a line, in
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which case the two characters before the cursor are exchanged. While this
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behavior is perhaps surprising, and certainly inconsistent, it has been
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found through extensive experimentation to be what most users want. This
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feature is a miswart.
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