FWIW, in the code footprint is often abbreviated as fp, but symbol is rarely 
abbreviated.

> On 26 Nov 2019, at 20:45, Ian McInerney <mcians...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I do like fp-editor and sym-editor better. Note that for consistency with the 
> other multiword tags for GitLab, I will use a hyphen.
> 
> -Ian
> 
> On Tue, 26 Nov 2019, 8:07 p.m. Jeff Young, <j...@rokeby.ie 
> <mailto:j...@rokeby.ie>> wrote:
> I would go with either historic (modedit and libedit) or current (fp_editor 
> and symbol_editor).
> 
> Mixing the two would be particularly obscure.
> 
> Cheers,
> Jeff.
> 
> > On 26 Nov 2019, at 19:40, Wayne Stambaugh <stambau...@gmail.com 
> > <mailto:stambau...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On 11/26/19 2:20 PM, Ian McInerney wrote:
> >> I would like to introduce two new official tags on the bug tracker to
> >> track issues relating to the symbol and footprint editors. Currently we
> >> are tracking these under the eeschema and pcbnew tags respectively, but
> >> those are growing quite large (pcbnew has over 500). I think tracking
> >> these two tools under separate tags would help, since then we can more
> >> easily locate bugs/wishlist items for them.
> >> 
> >> I am thinking the footprint editor should be *modedit*, and my initial
> >> proposal for the symbol editor is *libedit*. I don't really like libedit
> >> though, since technically footprints also live in a library (but the
> >> code calls it libedit). Anyone have a better suggestion for its tag?
> > 
> > How about "symedit", short for symbol editor.  Honestly I would prefer
> > "fpedit" over "modedit" since we really don't refer to footprints as
> > modules any more.
> > 
> >> 
> >> Once we sort out the tag, and if no one objects, I will go through and
> >> update the tags after the GitLab transition is done.
> >> 
> >> -Ian
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