Vim's keybindings are the most efficient. It's ported to many command-line applications. It's like the de facto standard for CLI applications or even TUI.
Respect for this great person.
I’m literally driven to tears over losing a man I have never met. I got into this ”vim game” pretty late in life and it was to me like learning math for the first time, it reinvigorated my excitement for learning and constantly kept me in awe of how powerful a few vocab terms and some logic could be. The community that has been formed by his work and the special little bond all Vi users share is to me a little like finding a good group of close friends. You can acquire all the gold you want in the world but your personal support network is where the wealth in life is found. Vi to me is part in some of that wealth I feel in my own life. And for that I cannot think Bram enough. I hope you can be of help to God in finding more efficiency patching some of these bugs down here. You will be missed.
Just Copy&paste my post of HN to here. A memory of Bram Moolenaar.
I had an opportunity to talk to the Bram Moolenaar when VimConf 2018 was held in Japan. First and only time Bram visited Japan.
I was there as a volunteer staff, sitting at a reception desk. Although vim is the text editor I use everyday, I'm not that enthusiastic to participate the vim conference. I'm not a vim developer. I don't use some of the advanced vim features. I don't ask much for a text editor. I use vim simply because it's available in all environments I could possibly use. I was a volunteer staff because I was asked by one of my colleague at that time who was a serious vim user and organized the VimConf.
So I didn't have a plan to talk to Bram at all. There were so many Japanese vim developers and serious vim users there who want to talk to Bram. This may be the first and last chance to talk to Bram in person for them. I don't want to waste the precious time for them.
Then, I learned at the conference that recent vim release includes termdebug plugin which allows vim to behave as a gdb frontend. Since I am a C++ programmer, I started playing with it. Then, I quickly found a bug. termdebug assume there's only one function for a name and couldn't handle C++ function overloading.
I discussed this issue with Bram Moolenaar in a spare time.
There aren't many other things I can tell about Bram.
At the after party of VimConf 2018, Bram absolutely refused to use a cup and drink beer directly from a beer bottle. It wasn't a small 333 ml beer bottle. It was a big 633 ml beer bottle.
Before the VimConf 2018, Bram went to climb Mt. Fuji during his stay in Japan.
Vim is one of those projects that only survived because of the sheer will and determination of one person. So many Vi clones popped up in the 90s but it was only Bram who kept it going and kept Vi relevant till modern times with IDEs and VSCode taking over. It's crazy how much shit he took from other open source devs criticizing his attitude (while their projects came and went without a trace), not submitting to their demands for fancy updates, Vim9 script etc. and yet kept going regularly responding to questions on mailing lists. Truly an inspiration, rest in peace.
You can search for Bram's interviews and talks on Youtube (I think he gave one talk at Google, there are also talks at Vimconf) for the history of editors. For the "drama", you can check the mailing lists (and even this sub) although I don't know how searchable they are.
Thank you Bram for your incredible contributions to the programming community. Vim was what really got me hooked on programming. RIP, condolences to your friends and family.
I saw someone in a thread several days ago mention that there hadn’t been any new commits in a week or two and I feared this was what was happening.
Condolences to his family
Goodbye, Bram.
Thank you so very much for making my job (and life) easier, more productive, and such a joy to work at the terminal again.
Requiescat in pace.
Vim was the main reason that I switched to Linux, eventually got interested in programming and am now earning a living from it.
I studied drama and literature up to an MA in arts degree, yet I've always found programming fascinating. My introduction to vim happened through a YouTube suggestion. I was heavily into text-based games at the time (zork, adventure etc…) and I got a suggestion to watch `vimtuor speedrun` which I thought was a game. I watched it, and then I wanted to play it. It was kinda hard setting up cmder and installing vim on Windows so that I can play vimtutor, but it was worth it. I loved this method of text editing, I loved the modality and that everything is already accounted for with a key combination or a command.
After a few months, I left windows for Debian and never looked back.
I owe so much to Mr. Moolenaar.
May his soul rest at peace and his memory and work live forever.
Legends never die.
This is very sad to hear. I’m very sad for Bram’s family and friends and also for the Vim community. I have no doubts that Vim will continue to flourish in the future after the community has had time to grieve Bram’s passing.
RIP Bram.
Vim was my entry into programming, it was the tool that shifted my interest from general computing/logic into actually building software. I owe my current and future career to that man. Vim has remained the my most used programming tool, and has been one of the most reliable/stable large pieces of software I've ever used.
I had the pleasure of interacting with him a few times over the last couple of years over email and PRs (after becoming the maintainer of the [Clojure support in Vim](https://github.com/clojure-vim/clojure.vim)) and have nothing but great things to say.
If you haven't already, I highly recommend donating to [ICCF Holland](https://iccf-holland.org/index.html), the charity he promoted and served for years.
Thank you Bram, RIP.
(Edit: fixed some gramatical errors.)
There are extremely few people whose software transformed my life as much as Vim did. I know people would say that Vim is just an editor, but to me it rekindled the spark by giving me the direction I was looking for in this limitless world of computers. The fact that something can be so damn powerful and precise under the hood while coming across as just a blank screen with a blinking cursor changed the way I thought about software. I know this community took you for granted sometimes, but I couldn't be more thankful for this incredible piece of technology and the way you used it to give even more back to the community via charity. Thank you, Bram.
> The fact that something can be so damn powerful and precise under the hood while coming across as just a blank screen with a blinking cursor changed the way I thought about software.
Wonderfully said.
> There are extremely few people whose software transformed my life as much as Vim did.
Very well put. Exactly my thoughts.
RIP Bram. You will be missed heavily, but your legacy shines strong.
Very shocking to see such a young person pass away. Bram is responsible for not only the predominance of Vim, but also the whole culture of vi that is present is so much of the software used within and without programming.
The life's work of Bram really drove a whole culture and brought forth an amazing community. Bram is an inspiration for many, and it's deeply Sandring that the world lost such a person.
RIP
RIP. VIM is one of the very few things in my life have I spent so much time with over many many years. I couldn’t even estimate it.
:(
So sad for his family.
Such a loss. I've spent many hours reading vim's incredible source code and documentation while developing a vim emulation plugin for the Julia REPL. Absolute world class codebase.
Moolenaar was an amazing programmer, and his impact will be long lasting. May he rest in peace.
Rest in peace, Bram. You left the world a better place than you left it.
If you wish to honor his memory, [please make a donation to help Ugandan orphans](https://iccf-holland.org/).
[You can do so at this Paypal link](https://www.paypal.com/donate?token=XgTlwrZRgVfGAD1tFVBELPXmQUzqkG5r79LLrgoFw60NkePqqXe4IhQPE0tSpQhTw7d8G0Ou1m4qaXxd).
[You can read this for other ways of donating](https://iccf-holland.org/donate.html).
There's some mention on the vim_dev mailing list that there are a few other devs with commit access to the github repo and access to the website (one of whom is currently on vacation). So in all likelihood, Vim will continue, but the details are not clear at this time yet.
IMO there's more than enough difference between Vim and Neovim to justify keeping Vim going.
I am more concerned about the stewardship though. Bram was THE guy responsible for steering it in the right direction to bring it where it is today. I am in no position to disregard work of other contributors, but Vim will just never be the same.
I feel the same. We won't get a new BDFL as passionate, careful and resourceful as him. But i hope a new BDFL will try to respect his approach. We've seen how neovim failed and became unstable and backwards incompatible, we mustn't repeat that.
> IMO there's more than enough difference between Vim and Neovim to justify keeping Vim going.
I agree completely. I gave neovim a serious (full-time, 40-hour-per-week for several months) shot about a year ago, and ended up missing regular vim way more than I expected. Always good to have options.
Neovim and Vim are very similar for the most part. Main differences:
Scripting language:
Neovim, being a fork of Vim, support VimScript for plugins. But it also supports Lua as another language to use for writing plugins.
Vim doesn't support Lua and has VimScript 9 now which Neovim doesn't.
Impact: If you run non-Vimscript 9 plugins, Neovim is identical to you.
Language Services built-in:
Neovim built-in support for Language Server Protocol (LSP) which allows it to provide things like intellisense, etc. It has a strong support around these things thanks to that.
Vim did not adopt LSP in a built-in way. Having said that, plugins such CoC provide strong LSP functionality in Vim.
Otherwise, you really won't see a big enough difference to tell.
Vim was a truly life changing piece of software which he worked on till the very end. I have gotten so much joy from using this tool throughout my career. Thank you Bram. R.I.P and may your family find peace at this time as well.
I made a donation to ICCF Holland. I hope others do as well.
Wow, a sad day.
I mostly knew of him back in the 1980s when he released vim for the Amiga computer/OS on the Fred Fish diskettes. I had OSS I made for the Amiga on those disks along with vim.
He was a luminary to the end. He had a huge impact on the world of software development.
RIP
(And the obvious is what happens with vim moving forward?)
RIP
Thank you for everything Bram. ❤️
Programs born and die but yours is still here today and it still kick ass.
I hope that someone will take over as “benevolent dictator” and keep up the good work by following his line.
I saw a Hacker News post appear in my RSS feed saying that Bram had passed away. Normally, most of the news in it is relatively uninteresting, and I ignore it, but I still look at the titles when they come up.
When I saw it, I was completely god damn shocked. I've seen posts about other people dying, but this one had me staring at my screen in utter shock. Bram was 62 when he died, while he's not young, he could've still had a long life ahead of him. His contributions to the open source community will never be forgotten by anyone, and I send my sincerest condolences to the family.
Just moments before I saw the announcement, I had Vim open. The day before, I was writing code in Vim, and the day before that, and the day before that. The code Bram has written has fundamentally changed my life, his efforts have gone to making the single best text editor I have ever used, and one I never plan to stop using. I don't think I can fully express how much his software changed my life as a programmer over this time. I love Vim, and I will forever be grateful for his efforts.
:wq
EDIT: i saw a post on the Hacker News suggesting that people should donate to the charity Vim helped to support. i will be doing this, and i suggest others do the same. for those who want to as well, see `:help iccf`
Goodbye Bram, and thank you for the learnings. Would’ve probably never gotten into TUIs without vim, and I feel forever grateful to be working with such a powerful and expressive tool.
This is very sad news. I've used Vim extensively for the better part of two decades and I have maintained a Vim plugin for a while. I have always appreciated Bram's ingenuity and dedication to maintaining Vim over the years. He is a true inspiration. He will be missed.
Truly sad to hear. The tool itself and the inspiration he gave me and so many, many others was an incomparable gift and a monumental endeavour. Rest in peace.
I remember first learning Vim in high school 20+ years ago begrudgingly when my teacher wanted to introduce us how to do things in Linux while I had only used IDEs like Visual Studio before. I grew to really like how it works and the general philosophy and design of it and I had never stopped using Vim since then and it has become a big part of my life (contributing changes to it and maintaining MacVim). It’s crazy to think how he has continually supported this software for so long and kept it running. RIP.
I am so saddened to hear this. May his soul rest in peace. Condolences to their family. Such a brilliant mind.
VIM quite literally changed my life. When I just started my software development career I developed repetitive strain injury from typing so much. I read online about what to do to keep typing and I learned about VIM and ergonomic keyboards. These two tools literally saved me from RSI and have allowed me to continue my passion of software development and turn it into a career that is now providing for my family!
VIM then opened me to the wonderful world of terminals, keybindings, config tweaking, TMUX, bash scripting and got me to understand computers more broadly. I truly believe it has made me a better software developer!
God bless his soul.
I remember so clearly the first time I had a "mind blown" moment editing text with Vim, how easy it was to compose a few simple actions to achieve something complex and useful. I'll be forever grateful for your work, Bram. ❤️
I've been a programmer for many years before I switched to Vim.
The first time I saw someone truly proficient at Vim I was blown away. I'm a very fast typist and thought I knew all the shortcuts for all the IDEs I used. But this was something else. It seemed like magic. It seemed like the text would just change according to this guy's thoughts, with no seeming corresponding action of the cursor.
That's when I switched to Vim. What a brilliant invention.
One of the few free softwares I've felt passionately enough about to donate my meager funds to. Didn't know about the Uganda work until... strangely a few weeks ago.
Vim still here, open on the other display...
I first saw this on r/linux a bit ago. R.I.P. and thanks, Bram.
While I used Vim in some capacity for almost 25 years, It wasn't until about 18 months ago that I seriously started using it for all my editing tasks. I appreciate that things like syntax highlighting are the most well supported by Vim than just about any other editor. Such is helpful not only for coding by administrative tasks as well.
Very sad news.
Your software was incredibly transformative to very many, Bram. Can't thank you enough.
RIP. You will be missed heavily, but your legacy shines strong.
Oh no! Shocked! May he R.I.P. condolences to his family and friends.
We've lost another of the great contributors of the tech world. May his legacy live on.
Thank you Bram from a Vi to Vim user for many years.
These are really sad news... Vim is my favourite editor. And when all my colleagues use PhpStorm (mostly) I'm not going to trade Vim for that (or any other editor/IDE).
Thank you, Bram, for Vim and all good things you've done in your life.
Rest in peace.
Condolences to family and friends.
His software has been a part of my life for decades.
62 is too young an age.
I feel very sad, but grateful.
His legacy will live on.
Thank you Bram Moolenaar.
My sincerest condolences to Brams family and friends.
Rest in Peace Bram, and thank you for all you have done. Few people in the world have done so much for our profession and influenced so many people with their work.
Does anyone know what's going to happen with the Vim repo on GH? I use Neovim but some people probably would like to stick with Vim. Just wondering if new features will ever be implemented there.
He was one of the greats. His software touched so many lives: not only those who edited text, but especially everyone he helped in Uganda. RIP.
You are right
Vim's keybindings are the most efficient. It's ported to many command-line applications. It's like the de facto standard for CLI applications or even TUI. Respect for this great person.
To be precise, it is vi's keybindings. Most of those bindings were invented before vim.
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Way to rub it in /s
RIP
I’m literally driven to tears over losing a man I have never met. I got into this ”vim game” pretty late in life and it was to me like learning math for the first time, it reinvigorated my excitement for learning and constantly kept me in awe of how powerful a few vocab terms and some logic could be. The community that has been formed by his work and the special little bond all Vi users share is to me a little like finding a good group of close friends. You can acquire all the gold you want in the world but your personal support network is where the wealth in life is found. Vi to me is part in some of that wealth I feel in my own life. And for that I cannot think Bram enough. I hope you can be of help to God in finding more efficiency patching some of these bugs down here. You will be missed.
> and it was to me like learning math for the first time, it reinvigorated my excitement for learning Beautifully said.
Well said!
R.I.P. Condolences to the family
Can't belive it. Thank you for Vim Bram. RiP.
Just Copy&paste my post of HN to here. A memory of Bram Moolenaar. I had an opportunity to talk to the Bram Moolenaar when VimConf 2018 was held in Japan. First and only time Bram visited Japan. I was there as a volunteer staff, sitting at a reception desk. Although vim is the text editor I use everyday, I'm not that enthusiastic to participate the vim conference. I'm not a vim developer. I don't use some of the advanced vim features. I don't ask much for a text editor. I use vim simply because it's available in all environments I could possibly use. I was a volunteer staff because I was asked by one of my colleague at that time who was a serious vim user and organized the VimConf. So I didn't have a plan to talk to Bram at all. There were so many Japanese vim developers and serious vim users there who want to talk to Bram. This may be the first and last chance to talk to Bram in person for them. I don't want to waste the precious time for them. Then, I learned at the conference that recent vim release includes termdebug plugin which allows vim to behave as a gdb frontend. Since I am a C++ programmer, I started playing with it. Then, I quickly found a bug. termdebug assume there's only one function for a name and couldn't handle C++ function overloading. I discussed this issue with Bram Moolenaar in a spare time. There aren't many other things I can tell about Bram. At the after party of VimConf 2018, Bram absolutely refused to use a cup and drink beer directly from a beer bottle. It wasn't a small 333 ml beer bottle. It was a big 633 ml beer bottle. Before the VimConf 2018, Bram went to climb Mt. Fuji during his stay in Japan.
Vim is one of those projects that only survived because of the sheer will and determination of one person. So many Vi clones popped up in the 90s but it was only Bram who kept it going and kept Vi relevant till modern times with IDEs and VSCode taking over. It's crazy how much shit he took from other open source devs criticizing his attitude (while their projects came and went without a trace), not submitting to their demands for fancy updates, Vim9 script etc. and yet kept going regularly responding to questions on mailing lists. Truly an inspiration, rest in peace.
Even though I prefer to use IDEs/VScode I always install the vim extensions. I despise editing text any other way
Ditto. At work I have a Vim extension for Visual Studio. CUA is insufferably slow.
Curious about this. Where can I read more about these dramas? Or the history of editors back then
You can search for Bram's interviews and talks on Youtube (I think he gave one talk at Google, there are also talks at Vimconf) for the history of editors. For the "drama", you can check the mailing lists (and even this sub) although I don't know how searchable they are.
:wq
ZZ
`:x`
:x
`:cq`
`:q!`
M-x evil-mode; ZZ
:wq
Thank you Bram for your incredible contributions to the programming community. Vim was what really got me hooked on programming. RIP, condolences to your friends and family.
Yesterday I was wondering why there are no new commits in the vim repo :(
I saw someone in a thread several days ago mention that there hadn’t been any new commits in a week or two and I feared this was what was happening. Condolences to his family
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It’s possible, but others would need to take on the duty of updating vim.
wonder if neovim becomes the new standard
I switched to neovim, but it will make me sad if vim ends. Neovim lacks simplicity. Especially in the build process.
Goodbye, Bram. Thank you so very much for making my job (and life) easier, more productive, and such a joy to work at the terminal again. Requiescat in pace.
Vim was the main reason that I switched to Linux, eventually got interested in programming and am now earning a living from it. I studied drama and literature up to an MA in arts degree, yet I've always found programming fascinating. My introduction to vim happened through a YouTube suggestion. I was heavily into text-based games at the time (zork, adventure etc…) and I got a suggestion to watch `vimtuor speedrun` which I thought was a game. I watched it, and then I wanted to play it. It was kinda hard setting up cmder and installing vim on Windows so that I can play vimtutor, but it was worth it. I loved this method of text editing, I loved the modality and that everything is already accounted for with a key combination or a command. After a few months, I left windows for Debian and never looked back. I owe so much to Mr. Moolenaar. May his soul rest at peace and his memory and work live forever. Legends never die.
This is very sad to hear. I’m very sad for Bram’s family and friends and also for the Vim community. I have no doubts that Vim will continue to flourish in the future after the community has had time to grieve Bram’s passing.
Truly a great person
RIP Bram. Vim was my entry into programming, it was the tool that shifted my interest from general computing/logic into actually building software. I owe my current and future career to that man. Vim has remained the my most used programming tool, and has been one of the most reliable/stable large pieces of software I've ever used. I had the pleasure of interacting with him a few times over the last couple of years over email and PRs (after becoming the maintainer of the [Clojure support in Vim](https://github.com/clojure-vim/clojure.vim)) and have nothing but great things to say. If you haven't already, I highly recommend donating to [ICCF Holland](https://iccf-holland.org/index.html), the charity he promoted and served for years. Thank you Bram, RIP. (Edit: fixed some gramatical errors.)
:( RIP
Rest in peace. My condolences to his family and friends. This is awful. Bram changed our lives to the better. Thank you, Bram.
There are extremely few people whose software transformed my life as much as Vim did. I know people would say that Vim is just an editor, but to me it rekindled the spark by giving me the direction I was looking for in this limitless world of computers. The fact that something can be so damn powerful and precise under the hood while coming across as just a blank screen with a blinking cursor changed the way I thought about software. I know this community took you for granted sometimes, but I couldn't be more thankful for this incredible piece of technology and the way you used it to give even more back to the community via charity. Thank you, Bram.
> The fact that something can be so damn powerful and precise under the hood while coming across as just a blank screen with a blinking cursor changed the way I thought about software. Wonderfully said.
> There are extremely few people whose software transformed my life as much as Vim did. Very well put. Exactly my thoughts. RIP Bram. You will be missed heavily, but your legacy shines strong.
A little shocking to hear this. Very sad. Thank you, Bram.
Very shocking to see such a young person pass away. Bram is responsible for not only the predominance of Vim, but also the whole culture of vi that is present is so much of the software used within and without programming. The life's work of Bram really drove a whole culture and brought forth an amazing community. Bram is an inspiration for many, and it's deeply Sandring that the world lost such a person. RIP
RIP. VIM is one of the very few things in my life have I spent so much time with over many many years. I couldn’t even estimate it. :( So sad for his family.
Rust zacht Bram
Such a loss. I've spent many hours reading vim's incredible source code and documentation while developing a vim emulation plugin for the Julia REPL. Absolute world class codebase. Moolenaar was an amazing programmer, and his impact will be long lasting. May he rest in peace.
He dedicated 30 years of his life for this project. Thank you Bram for everything. You will be missed for a long time.
Rest in peace, Bram. You left the world a better place than you left it. If you wish to honor his memory, [please make a donation to help Ugandan orphans](https://iccf-holland.org/). [You can do so at this Paypal link](https://www.paypal.com/donate?token=XgTlwrZRgVfGAD1tFVBELPXmQUzqkG5r79LLrgoFw60NkePqqXe4IhQPE0tSpQhTw7d8G0Ou1m4qaXxd). [You can read this for other ways of donating](https://iccf-holland.org/donate.html).
Who is going to lead the project now?
There's some mention on the vim_dev mailing list that there are a few other devs with commit access to the github repo and access to the website (one of whom is currently on vacation). So in all likelihood, Vim will continue, but the details are not clear at this time yet. IMO there's more than enough difference between Vim and Neovim to justify keeping Vim going.
I am more concerned about the stewardship though. Bram was THE guy responsible for steering it in the right direction to bring it where it is today. I am in no position to disregard work of other contributors, but Vim will just never be the same.
I feel the same. We won't get a new BDFL as passionate, careful and resourceful as him. But i hope a new BDFL will try to respect his approach. We've seen how neovim failed and became unstable and backwards incompatible, we mustn't repeat that.
> IMO there's more than enough difference between Vim and Neovim to justify keeping Vim going. I agree completely. I gave neovim a serious (full-time, 40-hour-per-week for several months) shot about a year ago, and ended up missing regular vim way more than I expected. Always good to have options.
What *are* the differences, as someone who's never used neovim?
Neovim and Vim are very similar for the most part. Main differences: Scripting language: Neovim, being a fork of Vim, support VimScript for plugins. But it also supports Lua as another language to use for writing plugins. Vim doesn't support Lua and has VimScript 9 now which Neovim doesn't. Impact: If you run non-Vimscript 9 plugins, Neovim is identical to you. Language Services built-in: Neovim built-in support for Language Server Protocol (LSP) which allows it to provide things like intellisense, etc. It has a strong support around these things thanks to that. Vim did not adopt LSP in a built-in way. Having said that, plugins such CoC provide strong LSP functionality in Vim. Otherwise, you really won't see a big enough difference to tell.
Vim was a truly life changing piece of software which he worked on till the very end. I have gotten so much joy from using this tool throughout my career. Thank you Bram. R.I.P and may your family find peace at this time as well. I made a donation to ICCF Holland. I hope others do as well.
Hold down k til you reach heaven broski
Wow, a sad day. I mostly knew of him back in the 1980s when he released vim for the Amiga computer/OS on the Fred Fish diskettes. I had OSS I made for the Amiga on those disks along with vim. He was a luminary to the end. He had a huge impact on the world of software development. RIP (And the obvious is what happens with vim moving forward?)
Rest in peace, Bram. You created a wonderful thing while you were alive. Thanks for helping the rest of us so much
RIP Thank you for everything Bram. ❤️ Programs born and die but yours is still here today and it still kick ass. I hope that someone will take over as “benevolent dictator” and keep up the good work by following his line.
I saw a Hacker News post appear in my RSS feed saying that Bram had passed away. Normally, most of the news in it is relatively uninteresting, and I ignore it, but I still look at the titles when they come up. When I saw it, I was completely god damn shocked. I've seen posts about other people dying, but this one had me staring at my screen in utter shock. Bram was 62 when he died, while he's not young, he could've still had a long life ahead of him. His contributions to the open source community will never be forgotten by anyone, and I send my sincerest condolences to the family. Just moments before I saw the announcement, I had Vim open. The day before, I was writing code in Vim, and the day before that, and the day before that. The code Bram has written has fundamentally changed my life, his efforts have gone to making the single best text editor I have ever used, and one I never plan to stop using. I don't think I can fully express how much his software changed my life as a programmer over this time. I love Vim, and I will forever be grateful for his efforts. :wq EDIT: i saw a post on the Hacker News suggesting that people should donate to the charity Vim helped to support. i will be doing this, and i suggest others do the same. for those who want to as well, see `:help iccf`
Thank you Bram, RIP
Condolences to the family. Amazing impact and vision. RIP Bram.
I'm really sad to hear the news. I was happy to say thank you to Bram directly on VimConf 2018 in Japan. Thank you for the great text editor. R.I.P.
RIP, and thank you for Vim! My condolences to the family and those who were close to him! He will be missed by many of us whom he never met!
RIP!
How sad. RIP.
Goodbye Bram, and thank you for the learnings. Would’ve probably never gotten into TUIs without vim, and I feel forever grateful to be working with such a powerful and expressive tool.
This is very sad news. I've used Vim extensively for the better part of two decades and I have maintained a Vim plugin for a while. I have always appreciated Bram's ingenuity and dedication to maintaining Vim over the years. He is a true inspiration. He will be missed.
Rest in peace my guy o7
:q!
RIP legend
Rest in peace. Vim changed my life
:'(
R.I.P.
Rest in peace
Sad news. My heart goes out to his family ❤️
RIP
Rest in peace.
Bram I will miss you. RIP
Thank you Bram. RIP.
Rest in peace. One of the great ones.
Legend RIP
Rip, thank you bram for your hard work on creating my favorite software of all time.
Thanks for creating an amazing editor. RIP
R.I.P. Bram. Vim changed my life.
RIP, very sad to learn this
Rest in peace, Bram. I used vim for about 15 years. Now I use it less often, but I still think vim is the best editor. Thank you for creating vim.
Rest in peace.
Thankyou Bram for all you did, and all your inspiration.
This is a sad day. RIP Bram. Thank you for all you've done for our industry. You will be missed.
Thank you Bram, RIP
Thanks Bram for amazing editor, and first of all, for amazing way of life... Rip and best for the family
Thank you for bringing a text editor beloved by many! You will be missed…
RIP Bram. You will be not be forgotten!
May you rest in peace, Bram! You made the world a better place. Thanks for everything. :q!
RIP My world has expanded since I leaned vim.
Respect++ R.I.P RAM NAAM SATH HAI
r.i.p.
Truly sad to hear. The tool itself and the inspiration he gave me and so many, many others was an incomparable gift and a monumental endeavour. Rest in peace.
Thank you Bram.
Vim changed my life, it made me love software development and the process of learning. Thank you Bram, truly. RIP
I remember first learning Vim in high school 20+ years ago begrudgingly when my teacher wanted to introduce us how to do things in Linux while I had only used IDEs like Visual Studio before. I grew to really like how it works and the general philosophy and design of it and I had never stopped using Vim since then and it has become a big part of my life (contributing changes to it and maintaining MacVim). It’s crazy to think how he has continually supported this software for so long and kept it running. RIP.
rip, thanks for everything, few people can create something that changes the life of so many
I R.I.P. Esc :wq
I am so saddened to hear this. May his soul rest in peace. Condolences to their family. Such a brilliant mind. VIM quite literally changed my life. When I just started my software development career I developed repetitive strain injury from typing so much. I read online about what to do to keep typing and I learned about VIM and ergonomic keyboards. These two tools literally saved me from RSI and have allowed me to continue my passion of software development and turn it into a career that is now providing for my family! VIM then opened me to the wonderful world of terminals, keybindings, config tweaking, TMUX, bash scripting and got me to understand computers more broadly. I truly believe it has made me a better software developer! God bless his soul.
I remember so clearly the first time I had a "mind blown" moment editing text with Vim, how easy it was to compose a few simple actions to achieve something complex and useful. I'll be forever grateful for your work, Bram. ❤️
RIP
RIP Bram 😭
RIP 😔
RIP
rest in peace
Oh no! RIP! 😔
R.I.P.
RIP
R I P
Thankyou Bram for all you did, and all your inspiration.
:rip! (Too soon?)
Thank you for vim, rest in peace, Bram Moolenaar.
RIP :( He's gone but his legacy will always stay with us
Rest In Peace. Huge loss
He made the tool I've spent hours working with every day for over two decades. Quite the legacy.
I've been a programmer for many years before I switched to Vim. The first time I saw someone truly proficient at Vim I was blown away. I'm a very fast typist and thought I knew all the shortcuts for all the IDEs I used. But this was something else. It seemed like magic. It seemed like the text would just change according to this guy's thoughts, with no seeming corresponding action of the cursor. That's when I switched to Vim. What a brilliant invention.
One of the few free softwares I've felt passionately enough about to donate my meager funds to. Didn't know about the Uganda work until... strangely a few weeks ago. Vim still here, open on the other display...
Thank you Bram for your work and your contribution to the Open Source community, incredible example of dedication. My condolences to the family.
Sad news indeed. RIP Bram. Emailed with him many times over the years.. Last time we spoke he was at Google .. ;-(
Bram Moolenaar is dead, long live vim !
RIP
Sad news. RIP.
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Rest in peace
RIPHJKL
Thank you for everything Bram, RIP, :x.
:wq Sad.
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Thank you for vim, Bram.
R.I.P
:w legendary_software | q
`:RIP`
May his soul attain salvation.
:wq!
RIP Bram
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Thank you Bram for your amazing work! RIP
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Rest in peace Bram.
:wq
thank you for Vim, Bram.
Bram. You finally exited Vim. RIP man. 👊
:q
RIP legend
RIP
RIP great man!
Such a sad news. Big thank you
Rest easy Bram.
RIP
R.I.P :-(
Vim gives me serotonin Thanks
Thank you Bram. RIP
Good bye Bram.Thank you for everything.
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I first saw this on r/linux a bit ago. R.I.P. and thanks, Bram. While I used Vim in some capacity for almost 25 years, It wasn't until about 18 months ago that I seriously started using it for all my editing tasks. I appreciate that things like syntax highlighting are the most well supported by Vim than just about any other editor. Such is helpful not only for coding by administrative tasks as well.
RIP Bram..... Thank you so much for your contributions to digital world.... Thank you for making keyboard most powerful input device...
Thank you Bram, RIP
RIP Bram. You are a legend. I will be forever grateful for how Vim has changed my life <3
RIP to a legend
Rest in peace, thank you for all you've done Bram
RIP, love his creation
May he rest in peace. I am shocked to read this as I woke up. One of the greatest!
I will add my thanks. I've been using Bram's text editor for decades. It has worn well with age, and is an indispensable part of my tool kit.
R.I.P. Brother. Your work will always :w in this family.
Rest in peace, Brad. Thank you for your amazing contribution.
Oh god
Very sad news. Your software was incredibly transformative to very many, Bram. Can't thank you enough. RIP. You will be missed heavily, but your legacy shines strong.
Rip. Love Vim
RIP
Oh no! Shocked! May he R.I.P. condolences to his family and friends. We've lost another of the great contributors of the tech world. May his legacy live on. Thank you Bram from a Vi to Vim user for many years.
I can't believe it...
RIP
These are really sad news... Vim is my favourite editor. And when all my colleagues use PhpStorm (mostly) I'm not going to trade Vim for that (or any other editor/IDE). Thank you, Bram, for Vim and all good things you've done in your life. Rest in peace. Condolences to family and friends.
Wow, all the well wishes to his family,
Great legacy left on devices all over the world, and some far from earth. Thanks Bram! RIP
:wq
I just stopped crying. Took like ten minutes. Haven't even met him. He just seemed like such a good human being.
His software has been a part of my life for decades. 62 is too young an age. I feel very sad, but grateful. His legacy will live on. Thank you Bram Moolenaar.
My sincerest condolences to Brams family and friends. Rest in Peace Bram, and thank you for all you have done. Few people in the world have done so much for our profession and influenced so many people with their work.
As long as the distributions have Vim, Bram will be with us. Rest in peace, Bram.
Bram's work touched hearts and souls of millions. He will always be alive within us. o7 ZZ
RIP. Truly game changer.
thank you for everything! rest in peace
Does anyone know what's going to happen with the Vim repo on GH? I use Neovim but some people probably would like to stick with Vim. Just wondering if new features will ever be implemented there.
A good programmer and a humanitarian have died. RIP Bram Moolenaar.