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From: mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Mike Khaw)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Request for human interface design anecdotes
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Date: Sat, 28-Nov-87 01:30:55 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov 28 01:30:55 1987
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> (The VMS interface is not always so friendly to novices: name the file
> "junk" instead of "junk.txt", and a novice may never figure out how to
> read it.  As for expert interfaces, rename the expert's .emacs file to
> sav.emacs and watch him/her try to recover.)

Yeah, I really hate when VMS outsmarts itself.  I had this exact problem
when I inserted a bug into my .emacs file and decided "No problem.  I'll
just rename it to emacs.init, run emacs, edit the file, and rename it back".
Boy was I ticked off when "rename emacs.init .emacs" gave me "emacs.emacs".
Of course, I didn't discover it until the next time I ran emacs and I didn't
get my usual environment.

Mike Khaw
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