:wq. Thanks for keeping Vim copyleft.
Bram Moolenaar has died
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#252Earlier quoted context omitted.
Neovim has a bit of a different mentality compared to Vim; it's not the same project. I don't really want to discus this in detail here as it's not the right location, but I think lots of people would be interested in continuing Vim, rather than having Vim being subsumed by Neovim. We'll have to see how things and the relationship between Vim and Neovim change and evolve in the coming weeks and months.
I assume there are multiple people willing and able to continue vim development and I think it might be important for that to happen. I just thought it was relevant in the context of that comment to mention the other project.
Whether VIM proper withers and fades away or not, Bram's legacy will live on through Neovim too.
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#253For me, vim means muscle memory. I can say that it has become part of me!
RIP Bram Moolenaar
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#254There are extremely few people whose software transformed my life as much as Vim did. I know people would say that Vim is just an editor, but to me it rekindled the spark by giving me the direction I was looking for in this limitless world of computers. The fact that something can be so damn powerful and precise under the hood while coming across as just a blank screen with a blinking cursor changed the way I thought about software. I know this community took you for granted sometimes, but I couldn't be more thankful for this incredible piece of technology and the way you used it to give back even more to the community. Thank you, Bram.
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#255:q but always:w
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#256still use vim every day.
worked with him ~decade ago.
this hits hard.
does anyone know if his family needs help/is there a way to help out? i would love to give back if possible.
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#257> Anyone who's used Vim has seen evidence of Moolenaar's generosity. "Vim is Charityware," Moolenaar wrotes in its pioneering license. "You can use and copy it as much as you like, but you are encouraged to make a donation for needy children in Uganda." Moolenaar pioneered the concept of charityware decades ago, and also helped to popularize its adoption. Pioneered one of the most iconic pieces of software in history…
For anyone interested, here is the link to the ICCF charity that I found on the Vim website. https://iccf-holland.org/
I have made a donation in memory of Bram Moolenaar, as a token of my gratitude for having vi over the years.
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#258I met him in the Google Zurich office. He led an "Open Source at Google" talk as part of orientation for our group. Probably the best person to lead that talk at that time.
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#259Wow, the comments on Slashdot are such a train wreck. Didn't realise Slashdot had become so bad.
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#260I started using vim about 12 years ago during my first dev job, after challenging myself to learn enough of it to use it for a day. It's very possible that my muscle memory will retain vim keybindings for the rest of my life. His impact on so many people is the kind of thing that motivates me to write software.