I cant believe they had the gall to write his obit in emacs!
RIP VIM
Bram Moolenaar has died
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#202Earlier quoted context omitted.
>@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.
It depends... some users have their own custom notification systems. Many business control their PR here strictly.
But in general.. yes.
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#203I lived in Adliswil, a couple streets away from him. When I learned about the fact that this Legend lives just nearby, I was like a child before Christmas, planning to meet up with him and thanking him for vim.
I never did. I hope I would have. :-(
RIP, mr Moolenar.
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#204Bram 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?
:! !!
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#205Terribly sad news. Thank you, Bram, for the finest software tool I've ever wielded.
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#206I worked with Bram at Google. He was an incredibly nice guy. He went out of his way to meet with me on a few different occasions. I wasn’t important at the time—I just made a few UI widgets for Google Calendar, which was his team at Google. Very swell guy who made the world a better place.
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#207Bram 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?
It seems unthinkable that Dang will not bestow this honor upon him. Given that it's currently early Saturday morning, we just have to wait.
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#208RIP Bram, thanks for all the shortcuts!
:wq!
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#209Earlier quoted context omitted.
@-mentions don't do anything. Email is the only reliable way to contact dang.
It depends... some users have their own custom notification systems. Many business control their PR here strictly. But in general.. yes.
I'd be surprised if any of these pick up on "@name" specifically, rather than just "name".
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#210Few 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…
I wrote on twitter that vim is a masterpiece. It's the gleaming precise machine tool on which so much of modernity was crafted. It's so hard to quantify Bram's impact, because he did so much through so powerful a force multiplier.
I started as a Unix sysadmin 25 years ago and kept gravitating towards vim. One practical reason is because it paid off to be familiar with vi, which is nearly always still available on just-installed or bare-bones systems. But another is how welcoming and leveling the Vim community was. It was so easy to get great macros and tips, and everyone was just super friendly about it. I remember someone in #vim irc teaching me "gqap" to wrap a paragraph, and they very naturally took the time to explain how it all worked. There was no sneering on from the community. I think Bram's empathy and leadership was a huge part of that attitude in the community.
I'm a regular annual donor on Vim's behalf, and this morning donated another €250 in Bram's memory. People should only donate what they can afford, we all have different means, but I'd encourage folks to work out what a great commercial editor or IDE would have cost them in licensing over their use time, and to consider donating in proportion.
:wq Bram