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Bram Moolenaar has died

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Post by u801e »

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

Just looking at the per month commit counts, it looks like they dropped substantially from February this year compared to the past.

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Post by orsenthil »

Bram influenced me. The splash screen that encouraged donation to charity caught my attention like nothing else. Inspired by that splash screen, I started volunteering my time and donated money to many causes that I cared about.

I once had a brief interaction with Bram. He clearly said, he didn't need any money and encouraged all donations to causes he cared about. In one case, $10,000 to Kilbale children center, he volunteered with.

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Post by smueller1234 »

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…

Since there's a ton of Google employees here - reminder that Google does gift matching for this charity!

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Post by myth2018 »

PartiallyTyped wrote: post #183
PartiallyTyped wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

:x

Do people really not know :x == :wq ???

They are similar, but I stick to :wq. I fear mixing up :x with :X. Would probably catch the mistake when being asked to type the encryption key, but anyway

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Post by ruuda »

I met Bram once, at an open source fair at Google’s Zürich office. At the fair everybody could show off their projects. There was one person who had built some kind of AST editor/IDE, where the unit of editing was not the file, but functions floating around in a workspace. He was showing this to Bram, but I don’t think he realized who he was talking to. When he asked “so, what do you think?”, Bram answered “Hmm yeah, I’m more of a vi-type of person.”

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Post by throwawaynew »

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?

Not to sound bitter, but should we assume that dang does not consider the creator of vim to be worthy of a black banner? I keep forgetting that this site, despite having hacker in its name, is not really about hacking. Anyways, I hope Bram Moolenaar finds peace.
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