What is "timmy whinge" all about?

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 relevan开发者_运维问答t to anything, but every time I see that option in the docs, I have to wonder.

According to the definitive source: Neil Hodgson, lead developer of Scintilla:

I shouldn't have named a feature after a real person.

The standard Python module for checking indentation is 'lib/tabnanny.py' which was implemented by Tim Peters.

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.