Re: Emacs manual mentioning thumbs mode but not tumme

[Dieter Wilhelm]

"Mathias Dahl" <address@hidden> writes:

> BTW, I'm curious, is there something offending by the word "tumme"? I
> made a quick google search and could not find anything special. I
> agree that "thumbs" is better, of course, or at least easier to
> find/guess.

that's it (at least for English speakers).  Otherwise tumme is OK.

>> I'll give you an example: I, personally, prefer the way tumme handles
>> the images when the size is bigger than the display buffer, it fits
>> the image to the buffer size.  thumbs is displaying the image in the
>> original resolution, I'm damn sure that there are users out there who
>> would prefer it the thumbs' way.
>
> Then they could use C-u RET instead of just RET :)

Great, good job! I really guessed something in this line, but I was
too lazy to go after it!

> I'm not very concerned about disk space, I was mostly thinking about
> maintenace resources, but I won't argue about that anymore as we
> clearly have different opinions.

I also meant maintenance resources.  That is, in my opinion, the only
case against thumbs.

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    Best wishes

    H. Dieter Wilhelm
    Darmstadt, Germany