On 15 February 2016 at 10:55, <lucio@proxima.alt.za> wrote:

>
> Whereas I agree that the leading-dot convention ought to be buried, in
> reality (a) it is not going to just go away and (b) if it was so
> readily accepted, it must have fulfilled a need.
>

There is no "leading dot" convention in Plan 9.
That's in BSD-derived UNIX, and it's the result of an simplified hack in
ls, which was fixed in Seventh Edition.
If you can open it, it's obviously not "hidden": it's just inconvenient to
use with grep *.