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The more that I think about this the less I like it.
Should hiding be an operating system thing, a filing system thing, an installation thing, a (creating) application thing, a (viewing) application thing, a view thing, or a user thing? Or some evil combination of the above? We could have a hierarchy of configurations. >:-> There must be a dozen places that you can insert "vi" options.
Option A)
"ls" already has "-a" and "-A" options. Let's just badger all application maintainers to create dotted backup files.
Option B)
Keep the current drop down menu "View". Replace, "Show hidden files" with a sub menu, "hide files =>" and have a check box for each of; dot files, bak files, tllde files, [[every other daft convention that you can think of]] and finally a check box for a user's regex expression. The default should be to have "dot files" checked and all others unchecked.
Just my 2 cents worth. ;-)