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Re: Bram Moolenaar has died

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Post by ezoe »

I had an opportunity to talk to the Bram Moolenaar when VimConf 2018 was held in Japan. First and only time Bram visited Japan.

I was there as a volunteer staff, sitting at a reception desk. Although vim is the text editor I use everyday, I'm not that enthusiastic to participate the vim conference. I'm not a vim developer. I don't use some of the advanced vim features. I don't ask much for a text editor. I use vim simply because it's available in all environments I could possibly use. I was a volunteer staff because I was asked by one of my colleague at that time who was a serious vim user and organized the VimConf.

So I didn't have a plan to talk to Bram at all. There were so many Japanese vim developers and serious vim users there who want to talk to Bram. This may be the first and last chance to talk to Bram in person for them. I don't want to waste the precious time for them.

Then, I learned at the conference that recent vim release includes termdebug plugin which allows vim to behave as a gdb frontend. Since I am a C++ programmer, I started playing with it. Then, I quickly found a bug. termdebug assume there's only one function for a name and couldn't handle C++ function overloading.

I discussed this issue with Bram Moolenaar in a spare time.

There aren't many other things I can tell about Bram.

At the after party of VimConf 2018, Bram absolutely refused to use a cup and drink beer directly from a beer bottle. It wasn't a small 333 ml beer bottle. It was a big 633 ml beer bottle.

Before the VimConf 2018, Bram went to climb Mt. Fuji during his stay in Japan.

Re: Bram Moolenaar has died

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Post by dmarinus »

So sad, I had the honor to meet Bram at a FOSS talk with RMS which he organized in Amsterdam RAI. I'll never forget that day. I've been using VIM for a many decades and I'm sure to keep using it for a long time. Many thanks for all the work and condolences for his family.

Re: Bram Moolenaar has died

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Post by wufocaculura »

That's a sad news for the Vim community. Given that development was basically focused around Bram, it makes me wonder, what will happen with Vim now?

WIll someone step up and continue to develop Vim, or it will fade away and Neovim take its place?

Re: Bram Moolenaar has died

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Post by _blz2 »

This is indeed a huge loss. I've used vim for over a decade now. Configuring and tinkering with it was and is always the first thing I do when I get a new machine. He's also a good person from the small amount of interaction I've had with him on github.

Re: Bram Moolenaar has died

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Post by capableweb »

ezoe wrote: post #142

I had an opportunity to talk to the Bram Moolenaar when VimConf 2018 was held in Japan. First and only time Bram visited Japan. I was there as a volunteer staff, sitting at a reception desk. Although vim is the text editor I use everyday, I'm not that enthusiastic to participate the vim conference. I'm not a vim developer. I don't use some of the advanced vim features. I don't ask much for a text editor. I use vim si…

Here is photos from Bram when they were at the Japan trip: https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipMc4NF8j66ohinWutVHktl4... "Tokyo 2018 (Nov 17 – 25, 2018)"

His website has a lot of other albums he published for everyone to enjoy: https://moolenaar.net/albums.html

Re: Bram Moolenaar has died

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Post by sigzero »

wufocaculura wrote: post #144

That's a sad news for the Vim community. Given that development was basically focused around Bram, it makes me wonder, what will happen with Vim now? WIll someone step up and continue to develop Vim, or it will fade away and Neovim take its place?

I believe there is a development team actually in place but they probably have to decide the way forward now. I have little doubt it will continue.
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