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What is "timmy whinge" all about?

Asked 2011-06-02T12:50:13.220
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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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It is a reference to Tim Peters, major Python contributor and author of the original tabnanny (amongst many other things!). Confirmed by Neil Hodgson on the scintilla-interest mailing list.

answered 2011-06-16T13:56:30.237

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