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Bram Moolenaar, the creator of the widely respected Vim code editor, has passed away at the age of 62. The family announced his passing in a heartfelt Google Groups message on August 5, revealing a sudden progression of a medical condition that had afflicted him.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 95 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Man, I'm sad ๐Ÿ˜”.

I knew him personally (we worked for the same company at a point in time, although very different departments). I'm also a heavy vim user.

We once were in the same meeting where the unsuspecting meeting chair was taking nodes in emacs org-mode. Most of other meeting members were not geeks, so nobody knew who Bram was. I said "Bram, look at this, they're taking notes in emacs just to piss you off", to which he responded "yeah, and it is horrible...." ๐Ÿ˜

Farewell and :wq

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

What was your impression of him?

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately, I only had limited interactions with him. I was the lead on a project that needed a few things from his team, and we had a number of meetings due to that.

From my limited contact, he seemed like a chill guy. Never made any unreasonable assumptions and had a technical view on how to solve problems.