From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dieter Wilhelm Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs manual mentioning thumbs mode but not tumme Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:58:44 +0200 Organization: The Church of Emacs Message-ID: <87bqhoxi1n.fsf@debby.local.net> References: <87slb8szz9.fsf@debby.local.net> <17947.65334.841905.101671@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <17949.22877.645175.478069@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <17950.43941.498605.877229@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <876481t7mu.fsf@debby.local.net> <7dbe73ed0704130201n1c365d4cy9635c1e84886a710@mail.gmail.com> <87wt0frzs0.fsf@debby.local.net> <7dbe73ed0704161136k1f54e5c7j6e49b63504d7f0e4@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1176749967 5381 80.91.229.12 (16 Apr 2007 18:59:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:59:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Nick Roberts , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Mathias Dahl" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 16 20:59:19 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HdWQ0-0007V5-G4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:59:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HdWUd-0006NG-QB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:04:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HdWUb-0006NB-2W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:04:01 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HdWUY-0006Mz-Mo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:03:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HdWUY-0006Mw-Gl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:03:58 -0400 Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.186]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HdWPt-0000MF-Q0; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 14:59:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [84.167.23.2] (helo=debby.local.net) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu3) with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0MKxQS-1HdWPn1O5K-0001AT; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:59:04 +0200 Original-Received: from dieter by debby.local.net with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HdWPU-0000zV-Q3; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:58:44 +0200 In-Reply-To: <7dbe73ed0704161136k1f54e5c7j6e49b63504d7f0e4@mail.gmail.com> (Mathias Dahl's message of "Mon\, 16 Apr 2007 20\:36\:35 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.95 (gnu/linux) X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+YLlv46nAM3VGnuZRwi5weeB3dP2PiPwqtngV wbFqgBk9Byu0oaXWqEmLy6ONQtgfGyah85SJcKLbjTvBVygrxn MuBBlf00XOo4OPpnpcVfO08rU/VOL6u X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:69506 Archived-At: "Mathias Dahl" 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. -- Best wishes H. Dieter Wilhelm Darmstadt, Germany