Re: Emacs manual mentioning thumbs mode but not tumme

[David Kastrup]

address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:

> Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>     > "Thumbs" would be better because it would be clearer.
>>     > Perhaps we should rename the two modes so that the name M-x thumbs
>>     > belongs to tumme.
>>
>>     I would not object to that but others might. People used to exactly
>>     how Thumbs works, for example.
>>
>> thumbs.el has never been in an Emacs release.  Maybe we should rename
>> it now.
>
> Honestly, what's wrong with tumme ... it shows the Swedish origin.

You won't hit upon it with alias search or just by M-x thum <TAB>.
However, "thumbs" does not seem like much of an advantage here,
either.  Probably not what I'd be thinking of first.

-- 
David Kastrup