miswart

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.
    

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.

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