:wq
this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2023
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Couldn't have said it better
:x!
A person is lucky to do one thing that affects a huge number of people's lives for the better, and even luckier if they know what it was and have been appreciated for it. Well done, Bram.
Wow. Now I wish I knew more about him. I've used vim nearly every day of my career.
I use it now as part of ranger file manager. Such a great text editor and all I use it for is editing config files.
It's difficult to compute the additional world domestic product that was created due to vim, to compute the impact one person had on... everything.
A very sad day.
He finally figured out how to exit.
Dark humour aside, sad to hear this. Vim is my favorite text mode editor; the contribution he has made to the open source world, as well as his charity work for Ugandan AIDS victims, will not be forgotten.
GNU Bram Moolenar
After a brief time in Insert, we all revert to Default mode eventually.
:wq
This is now the cheesiest thing I’ve ever said
Damn, only 62. I don't see a cause of death yet, just "a medical condition that deteriorated over the last few weeks." I appreciate that he always connected VIM to his charities.
https://iccf-holland.org/
https://www.vim.org/iccf/
https://www.iccf.nl/
VI was the past and NeoVim might be the future, but Bram carried the torch for a long time with VIM. Much respect.
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A person is lucky to do one thing that affects a huge number of people's lives for the better, and even luckier if they know what it was and have been appreciated for it. Well done, Bram. Rest easy.
My main editor for many, many years, grateful for his efforts. R.I.P.
So long, and thanks.
I will never quit my vim again.