DWIM
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The acronym DWIM stands for "Do What I Mean". It is a humorous way of describing a user's feeling that a computer function should work the way the user wants — instead of the actual result that they told it to do, but did not want. The term has been in use for decades .
Recently, word processors have DWIM features that check for typos and spelling errors as words are typed.
Anticipating variations in the way a user or a programmer expresses themselves has a long history. Before 1984, Warren Teitelman wrote routines to "correct errors automatically or with minor user intervention". [1] Following in the LISP tradition, Emacs has a function comment-dwim that comments out a selected region if uncommented, or uncomments it, when already commented out.
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- DWIM in the Jargon File
