Message from the family of Bram Moolenaar
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Here is a message from his family

      • drcobaltjedi@programming.devEnglish
        171·
        1 year ago

        A lot of the comment’s I’ve seen everywhere over this news is “exiting vim” out of respect and admiration. They aren’t being disrespectful but honoring the legacy that he fostered, and remembering the hard parts of his software.

        • Johnny@feddit.deEnglish
          53·
          1 year ago

          There’s a difference between making a vim reference and “oh, a mourning family message? quick, i must find a stale joke to crack for internet points”

          Feel free to tell yourselves this is respectful. I think some people here have been on the internet for too long.

      • CoderKat@lemm.eeEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        I’ve worked in a few places that were full of Linux nerds (including my current job). We totally use sed style replacements and joke about vim escape keys (especially the classic :q). So you just need nerdier friends (as in ramped up to 11).

    • twistypencil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      191·
      1 year ago

      Technically, that is not vim specific, conning from sed and ed, but definitely worked in vim as well as all vi clones

      • chinpokomon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        This is why it works so well. It’s also one of the reasons I prefer vi over other text editors. It isn’t always the most logical which commands and keys do what, but I like the consistency.

  • grte@lemmy.caEnglish
    66·
    1 year ago

    Pretty much any program I use I try to shift over to vim style keys. This guy’s reach went far beyond vim to me.

    • DocMcStuffin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      52·
      1 year ago

      The hjkl keys came from Bill Joy when he wrote vi. The terminal he was using had arrows printed on those keys because it didn’t have dedicated arrow keys. It was a natural progression to reuse those keys for navigation.

      vim was a huge improvement over vi. To where it became the defacto replacement. Some distros even shipped vim as a replacement for vi. That was because the Linux Standard Base required vi to be present.

      Still a huge influence. vi was a bit painful to use when coming from vim. Would hjkl have died out if it wasn’t for vim? IDK. I think it would have been relegated to a niche corner of the unix/linux world.

  • Tentaclius@lemmy.worldEnglish
    43·
    1 year ago

    The guy onse famously responded to the question of how the community can ensure that vim project succeeds for the forseeable future with “keep me alive”. Seems like there is our fault :(

    RIP the legend. Keep Vimming.

    • PutangInaMo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      Great words. He may be gone now but he’s got all us nerds in here thanking him and pondering the good ol days where his passion helped so many. Shit could be our eulogy from lemmy.

  • cloudy1999@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    25·
    1 year ago

    This news hit me hard this morning. Bram’s work has directly benefited my career for decades. He was a good human being who did good things. RIP Bram

  • abrer@lemmy.oneEnglish
    14·
    1 year ago

    RIP and thanks for all the hard work I’ve benefited from over the last decade.

    I’ll think of this man while explaining vim to my new hire next week.

  • deBaron@feddit.nlEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    That’s very sad to hear. Bram had a significant impact on me and how I use my computer. Rust zacht, Bram.

  • jeanma@lemmy.ninjaEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    R.I.P. Bram.

    I use VIm every day, I enjoy using it, I am still in awe when discovering stuff, still after 17y!