Bram Moolenaar has died • Hacker News Board

tzhenghao wrote: post #67

Loved his "7 Habits For Effective Text Editing 2.0" (2007) talk and humor [1] "How many of you are mostly using Emacs?" a bunch of raised hands "Okay, we'll try to convert some people today!" RIP, Bram Moolenaar [1] - https://youtu.be/p6K4iIMlouI

That presentation is also available as PDF with notes from his homepage:

https://moolenaar.net/habits_2007.pdf

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Post by junon » Sat, Aug 05, 2023, 4:01 PM UTC

capableweb wrote: post #19

Few people could probably argue that they helped as many humans in dire situations like Bram did in his life. Vim was the first time I came across "charityware" as vim encourages users to donate to International Child Care Fund Holland on its splash screen, instead of begging for money for itself. I feel a bit of shame when I say that I've only donated to ICCF once over all these years.... As a remembrance of Bram an…

Thanks for the link, should have made a donation years and years ago. Better late than never, I suppose.

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Post by dawidpotocki » Sat, Aug 05, 2023, 4:05 PM UTC

Vim has completely changed the way I use computers and I'm not able to thank Bram enough for this. Even though I have switched to Neovim and never met him, it makes me deeply sad. :wq

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Post by tristor » Sat, Aug 05, 2023, 4:09 PM UTC

Learning Vim was one of the most important steps in my life in the journey to escaping Windows and learning Linux/UNIX. I still use Vim every day as my primary text editor and it’s the first thing I install on a new Mac.

RIP Bram, I have made a donation to ICCF Holland in memoriam.

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Post by Keyframe » Sat, Aug 05, 2023, 4:09 PM UTC

Thank you, Bram!

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Post by omoikane » Sat, Aug 05, 2023, 4:12 PM UTC

VIM is not just my favorite text editor, but my favorite piece of software of all time on all platforms. I have only ever encountered so few minor issues, and Bram fixed them all quickly. He will be sorely missed.