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Post by ezoe »

capableweb wrote: post #148
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

https://photos.app.goo.gl/BtVZMoZjdEmPKCeu9

This photo remembers me a funny discussion at that time.

One of the participants said he use vim to write .emacs file.

"Why don't you use Emacs for that?" I asked.

"Because if I have to edit .emacs, that means emacs isn't configured the way I liked it. So I use vim in that case"

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Post by maximilianburke »

nabogh wrote: post #130

It's so surreal to me that I can look at his commit graph on github and see he was working right up until very recently. Rest in peace. https://github.com/brammool

That's an especially poignant view; you can see the activity start strong last year and then fade out until it just ends.

Rest in peace, Bram; thank you for your work.

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Post by Syssiphus »

jakebasile wrote: post #43

Vim and its descendant modes in other editors has drastically improved my life, which maybe is a weird thing to say about a text editor but it's true. I am very sorry to hear of his passing.

If it's something that you use for a large part of your day, then there is nothing weird about it.

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Post by techdragon »

codetrotter wrote: post #3

Bram Moolenaar was the original author, maintainer, release manager, and benevolent dictator for life of Vim. @dang can HN put a black banner for Bram Moolenaar please?

This feels monumental… can we get the black bar for the entire weekend.

This is the passing of someone that has fundamentally touched the lives of so many programmers… his work is now part of our very folklore, we make vim jokes, we emulate it in other tools, even the “enemy” (eMacs) eventually added evil mode (mind my humour it has sharp edges)… vim is mentioned in science fiction and has survived the journey from Unix to a plethora of other operating systems…

He will be missed.

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