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Bram Moolenaar, creator of vim, has died.
If you are a vim user, consider donating to International Child Care Fund Holland - a charity Bram heavily supported. You can find the link on vim.org
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I am truly and deeply saddened to hear this. My condolences to his family.
vimorvim-enhancedis one of the first things I install on any distro that doesn’t have it included by default. I have been using it for decades and am so used to seeing Bram’s name come up on the screen whenever I start the editor. His work greatly enriched my programming experience over the years and I am sure for countless other people as well. I don’t know what to say except a heartfelt “Thank you, Bram”.Looks like we failed bram :(
https://www.binpress.com/vim-creator-bram-moolenaar-interview/It could be that we have transitioned into the unforeseeable future.
It most certainly feels that way, in more ways than one.
Especially No. 8
8: How can the community ensure that the Vim project succeeds for the foreseeable future? Keep me alive.
What an absolute legend. Hard to imagine many others with as significant of an impact on programmers all over the world. He will be greatly missed. RIP.
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Oh wow this so sad. Ever since I used vimtutor the first time, Ive used vim keys in every editor I used. Hopefully the project keeps doing well without him, its a great piece of software.
My entire life has vim key bindings. My window manager and browser all have vim key bindings. I work in vim. I write my shopping lists in vim.
I really can’t overstate how ingrained vim is in my day to day life. Bram had a big impact.
Same here OP
Bram will be missed. ✊🏾 :wq
Me too. I’ve used vim to make my living for at least the last 20 years.
I hope it ultimately re-organizes as more of a community effort now like neovim.
Rest in peace.
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RIP :(
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vim got me started programming recently, love it. Rest well,
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We all swear to honour you by removing pico / nano from all systems everywhere.
So long and thanks for all the fish
:w !sudo tee %
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In this case :wq does not sound right.
I would go with :q! (or :qa!)
Because death always fucks up all your plans.
I like to think of it as, his history and legacy being written to for the final time, the file being closed.
ZZ. You will be missed Bram, but your legacy will live on.
ZZ
