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Mac installs vim and bash by default but seeing their configuration files in Finder is spooky and not normal? It's not a terribly convincing argument that there should be no context menu in the Open File dialog window for showing/hiding hidden files.


There is no GUI version of Vim or Bash provided. They are expected to be used via the command line, where hidden files can be seen just as they can on any other Unix.


What fraction of Mac users do you think have every used vim or bash, let alone even opened Terminal.app? Or even know that it exists?


As a Mac user who uses command prompts all day every day, I don't open Terminal.app.


Well, they switched to zsh, but yeah.




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