Re: Rename `eww' to `web'

[Mathias Dahl <mathias.dahl@gmail.com>]

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Hi all,

It's interesting to see how much one can discuss around a name... ;)

When my `tumme' (now `image-dired') package was added to Emacs many moons
ago, the question about its name came up. Since I was the author and the
one who had picked the name ("tumme" means thumb, in Swedish, so it was a
good name for a package aimed at working with image thumbnails), and it
also had been used by people for a while, I felt... something (a small
disturbance in the force, maybe)... when the name change came up.

However, the arguments back then was about the same as now; it is
beneficial if users can find commands by guessing and it was reasonable to
assume that someone might try typing "image" to see what nice commands
there might exist for working with images. Also, since I was glad/proud
that someone asked if this could be included in Emacs, my favorite piece of
software, it was a small thing to change the name. And, I see now, the name
"tumme" is still there in the form of an alias for one of the commands in
the package.

So, that was my little insignificant story...

/Mathias

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