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Sven was a great guy. He lived to help people and he most loved to help people be more productive with CL text tools :-) He never lost his goal and drive and bright attitude, even when he was less than happy to be forced to move due to Berlin's housing price crisis. He's the reason I and a great many people are very happy or even happier tmux and zsh and vim users and I'll never forget the few times he visited us or…
Still proud he teached me how to do show "Vim" "eastside/westside style" with my fingers. RIP Sven.
Very sorry to hear of his passing. Sven Guckes was one of the kind souls on Usenet in the 90s who went out of his way to happily help people with their tech setups. I especially learned quite a lot about Vim and Zsh from him and his rc files which he made available to everyone on his webpage, long before public dotfile repositories on Github were a thing, even before most people in the Unix world knew those tools exi…
obituaries: https://martin.leyrer.priv.at/y2022/m02/Remember-Be_more_lik... https://sebstein.hpfsc.de/2022/02/21/mach-es-gut-sven-guckes... https://www.heise.de/news/Vim-Versteher-und-Kommandozeilener...