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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.

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      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.

  • Beej Jorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org
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    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.

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    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

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    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.