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.
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