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What is "timmy whinge" all about?

The SciTE text editor has an option in its configuration files called "tab.timmy.whinge.level".

What's the story behind this name?

As I understand it, "whinge" is a British-ism for "whine" -- Google defines it as "complain persistently and in a peevish or irritating way". So who exactly is Timmy, and what is he whining about? There's got to be a story there.

It's not really relevant to anything, but every time I see that option in the docs, I have to wonder.

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Joe White Avatar asked Jun 02 '11 12:06

Joe White


1 Answers

According to the definitive source: Neil Hodgson, lead developer of Scintilla:

I shouldn't have named a feature after a real person.

The standard Python module for checking indentation is 'lib/tabnanny.py' which was implemented by Tim Peters.

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AShelly Avatar answered Sep 24 '22 15:09

AShelly