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Bram Moolenaar has died
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Re: Bram Moolenaar has died
#72Bram 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?
I support this request. :x
Re: Bram Moolenaar has died
#73OH NO!!!! This guy literally changed my life by making vim. I could not imagine coding without vim!!!
It's weird but coding in vim is going to take on a new significance now. Each keystroke, somehow saluting him.
Very sad....
I think we definitely need the black navbar of mourning.
Re: Bram Moolenaar has died
#74Very sad news - been using vim for decades, still use it every day as pretty much all of my colleagues use VSCode... I met him briefly at FOSDEM 20+ years ago, will have to see if I can find the photo I took of him looking slightly bemused when I showed him vim running on a Linux-ified iPaq with a touchscreen and no keyboard!
As others have said, time to make a donation in his honour.
Re: Bram Moolenaar has died
#75Wow ;_; when I see our legends pass like this (you feel like they will live forever), it reminds me how short of a time we have here. Condolences to family and friends, he was truly exceptional in life. :wq
Re: Bram Moolenaar has died
#76RIP
Re: Bram Moolenaar has died
#77Few 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…
Thanks for bringing this up! It was a good reminder for me to donate. May he rest in peace.
Re: Bram Moolenaar has died
#78Bram 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?
This is the only vi-able action IMO.
The only problem is, some users will then be unable to exit, stuck in macro recording mode for eternity.
Just as Bram would want :)
Re: Bram Moolenaar has died
#79As a newbie user of vim, i have to admit, this is a really sad news for all open-source community !
RIP Bram !