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Bram Moolenaar has died

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Re: Bram Moolenaar has died

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Post by shriek »

Wow really really sad news.

When I was first starting to learn vim I thought to myself who would go through all these troubles just to write some text on an editor when there are better alternatives out there but then I slowly started to understand how it really worked and how you can slowly craft it to your liking. Now, I spend almost 90% of my time in terminal and vim and can't see myself working without it.

Thank you Bram for playing a big part of my coding life through your contributions.

Re: Bram Moolenaar has died

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Post by nichos »

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?

Hopefully something is in place with this official repo and we don't get a bunch of forks all over github. RIP Bram

Re: Bram Moolenaar has died

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Post by dlevine »

At my first job out of university, we were deploying applications on Solaris servers. I had been using emacs as a text editor, and these servers only had vim installed. I mentioned installing emacs to my manager, and he said that learning vim would be a "feather in my cap." I took him up on that advice, which was sage wisdom.

I spent a lot of my career using various forks of vim as my primary editor, and still use it when I need to edit a file.

Thanks Bram! This world will miss you.

Re: Bram Moolenaar has died

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Post by arp242 »

petecooper wrote: post #177
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?

>@dang The email address I've used in the past has been responded to promptly, that's probably more effective than an @ mention: hn@ycombinator.com

@-mentions don't do anything. Email is the only reliable way to contact dang.
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