Bram Moolenaar has died
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Bram Moolenaar has died
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#2I wrote the iOS port of Vim and therefore exchanged a few emails with Bram. As you can guess, a very nice person. Thank you for Vim, Bram!
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#3Bram 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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#4Incredibly sorry to hear this. The times I have seen his name.. or thought about who this guy might be, and that he not only is a super programmer but also a humanitarian. Too countless to think about. RIP.
@dang I know we don't see the black bar often but I hope it is possible
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#5Bram defined the interface I've used to express myself in so many ways since my early teens. His contributions to software development reach far beyond the $EDITOR and pervasive interaction patterns we're all so familiar with.
Thoughts are with his friends and family right now. Rest in peace, Mr. Moolenaar.
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#6Quite possibly my favorite software. Rest in peace.
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#7Thank you Bram, you will not be forgotten. RIP
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#9As a long time Vim user I’m extremely thankful for Bram’s creation and stewardship of an incredible piece of software. He gave the world an amazing gift.
I’ve interacted with Bram a few times personally in the process of submitting changes to Vim, and I’ve observed many more interactions with others. I always had an immense amount of respect for the way he led the Vim project and interacted with the community. It is not uncommon to see open source software maintainers become burnt out or frustrated, particularly with a piece of software as quirky and complicated as Vim. But Bram was almost always respectful and patient with users and contributors, even when they were not.
This is a loss for the software world. Bram, you will be missed.
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#10As an Emacs user [1] I can only say: RIP and thank you, for making the lives of programmers and engineers worldwide easier, with the healthy competition of Emacs and VIM approaches to text editing.
You live as long as your contribution to the world, and you can rest assured that a large part of us will still be using modal editing in our mind-controlled VR spatial googles.
:wq
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1: just this morning I was trying evil-mode once again...