seems like dang is using emacs ...
We got black bar. It just needed to propagate through the thousands and thousands of edge nodes powering HN.
Bram Moolenaar has died
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#292Earlier quoted context omitted.
Here is photos from Bram when they were at the Japan trip: https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipMc4NF8j66ohinWutVHktl4... "Tokyo 2018 (Nov 17 – 25, 2018)" His website has a lot of other albums he published for everyone to enjoy: https://moolenaar.net/albums.html
Wow these are really great photos - I'm sure both due to most culture in Japan is dripping in beauty, but also because Bram just takes really good photos! Thank you for sharing.
Though while I'm on Bram's team in the editor wars, it seems like we chose different sides in the camera wars. RIP and thanks for the program I probably use the most. :x
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#293I 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,…
That's a great anecdote!
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#294I am such a huge fan of Vim that I ran a Vim blog and posted daily tips for several years (will not mention it by name because I do not want to self-promote in this thread). I don't have much to say besides the fact that I feel like we've lost a "giant" in the open source world, and Bram's contributions as a software engineer, and more importantly, a fantastic human being, will not be forgotten. :help uganda
I’ll do it for you, I’d be interested in reading that blog.
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#295Vim and its descendant modes in other editors has drastically improved my life, which maybe is a weird thing to say about a text editor but it's true. I am very sorry to hear of his passing.
I was just trying to think how to say the same thing but wasn't sure how to say it. Since first discovering Vim back in the 1990s it's been something I've used almost every working day.
It's probably my favourite piece of software. Where ever I go, whatever platform I use, whatever I write, I use Vim.
Bram's work has made my life better. This is sad news indeed. :(
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#296Wow that hits rather hard actually. I never knew him other than through the welcome message on Vim, but he made one of the tools I rely on the most in my daily life. Thanks Bram, have a good afterlife.
It seems that behind that bare prompt and message lies a whole era where things were simpler in many dimensions. A bunch of help text, a charity suggestion, a cursor ... it was as simple as mysterious and capable.
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#297I was introduced to vim at university around 2001. I wasn't great with it, but back then I occasionally was doing some basic sysadmining, and also sometimes hand-editing websites live over SSH and it was the best tool for me. I've started using it again in 2022 and am enjoying the experience!
Thank you Bram.
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#298R.I.P. Today is the day to donate to ICCF.
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#299Personal Anecdote:
When I was first getting started in software I was very much part of the "I can think faster than I type" school and I had the good fortune to fall in with some really serious hackers, one of whom was an absolute wizard with `vim`.
He was a very humble guy, so it was some time before I learned he was in no small part such a `vi` pro because he had written a real vi, it was called `xvi` and I gather that it was around the time that `vim` was taking off.
I asked him why he used `vim` if he had written `xvi` and I'll never forget his reply: "Writing a `vi` is something any programmer can do if they put the effort in, writing a `vi` as good as `vim` is something only people like Bram can do. Obviously I'm going to use the better tool."
Bram changed the lives and careers of so many of us, myself included. I never interacted with him personally but from everything I've ever seen he was humble, brilliant, helpful, and took his craft as seriously as anyone I've ever heard of.
RIP Legend.
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#300Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's wrong with the last sentence? For ease of consumption, the context again: > On the other end of the scale are people who want to write beautiful code, spend lots of time on it, and don’t care if it actually does what it was intended to do or what the budget was. Somewhere in between, there is a balance.
It’s remarkably uncommon to find an employee who strikes a balance between the two. But I think this doesn’t make the sentence wrong.
Literally everyone strikes the balance. According to their experience. The older, the more experienced, the more balanced.