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		pjmlp on Aug 3, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rob Pike: the origin of dotfiles It always did, at least in NTFS. What did not, and still does not, is to create them via Windows Explorer. You can create them just fine from the command line, or via Windows APIs.

eropple on Aug 3, 2012 [–]

You can create them in Windows Explorer with a little trick: type the name with a trailing dot. Entering ".vimrc." will save as ".vimrc", no trailing dot.

pjmlp on Aug 4, 2012 | [–]

Great! I was not aware of it.

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