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miswart |
2 definitions found From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [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. From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [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. [{Jargon File}]
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