miswart
/mis-wort/ [from
wart by analogy with
misbug] n.
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.
