Mourning Bram Moolenaar [LWN.net]

Mourning Bram Moolenaar

Posted Aug 5, 2023 15:45 UTC (Sat) by ceplm (subscriber, #41334) [Link] (1 responses)

May His Lord bless his soul!

If you want to honour his memory, you know that Vim was actually charityware? Please, donate! https://iccf-holland.org/

Mourning Bram Moolenaar

Posted Aug 5, 2023 21:32 UTC (Sat) by lutchann (subscriber, #8872) [Link]

Indeed, ICCF Holland was the very first organization I donated meaningful money to as an adult, after a long and insightful back-and-forth with Bram. Twenty years on, that conversation remains one of the biggest influences on my personal philosophy toward charitable giving.

Mourning Bram Moolenaar

Posted Aug 5, 2023 17:13 UTC (Sat) by josh (subscriber, #17465) [Link]

Few have had such a multiplicative impact on so many.

ZZ

Mourning Bram Moolenaar

Posted Aug 5, 2023 17:19 UTC (Sat) by ccchips (subscriber, #3222) [Link]

A great loss; he did wonderful work.

I have used the Windows version of vim in my daily work.

Mourning Bram Moolenaar

Posted Aug 5, 2023 18:34 UTC (Sat) by Che0t (subscriber, #125738) [Link]

He influenced on the IT world so much! Rest in peace.
:wq

Mourning Bram Moolenaar

Posted Aug 5, 2023 18:39 UTC (Sat) by hgouni (subscriber, #166382) [Link]

His work changed the way I do mine. He will be sorely missed. Thanks for everything, Bram.

Mourning Bram Moolenaar

Posted Aug 5, 2023 19:20 UTC (Sat) by stefanha (subscriber, #55072) [Link] (3 responses)

The number of people that use Vim and its influence on text editors is enormous. Vim is everywhere, it's open source, and people use it to do things every day.

I've used Vim for almost 20 years on machines large and small. I fondly remember porting it to Plan 9 when I was a student.

I feel indebted to Bram Moolenaar for creating and leading the Vim community. He gave us a gift and he will be remembered.

Mourning Bram Moolenaar

Posted Aug 5, 2023 22:25 UTC (Sat) by ceplm (subscriber, #41334) [Link] (2 responses)

Just hearing vi and plan9 in one sentence … do you know about vis (https://git.sr.ht/~martanne/vis)? And paradoxically it actually doesn’t run on Plan9 (https://github.com/martanne/vis/issues/962).

Mourning Bram Moolenaar

Posted Aug 11, 2023 17:31 UTC (Fri) by stefanha (subscriber, #55072) [Link] (1 responses)

Thanks for the link to vis. I haven't tried it yet.

I know vi on Plan 9 is heresy :).

Mourning Bram Moolenaar

Posted Aug 13, 2023 17:24 UTC (Sun) by ceplm (subscriber, #41334) [Link]

> I know vi on Plan 9 is heresy :).

Is it? First of all https://vmsplice.net/9vim.html (yes, it is from 2008, but development of Plan 9 is not exactly neck breaking speed, and yes comments on https://www.reddit.com/r/plan9/comments/94wm96/vim_for_pl... are ridiculous).

Second the biggest problem I have with Plan 9 as it is now is completely horrible ultra-mouse-centric user interface which looks very much like something from 1980s when we were all in love with mouse, wait, it IS from 1980s! Some reasonable shell and keyboard-oriented utilities would IMHO helped to make Plan 9 more useable.

Mourning Bram Moolenaar

Posted Aug 5, 2023 19:53 UTC (Sat) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link]

Thanks Bram. You turned a crusty old unix program into something that seemingly everything with a caret has tried to imitate over the years, and if that isn't defining the shape of computing then I don't know what is.

Mourning Bram Moolenaar

Posted Aug 5, 2023 23:44 UTC (Sat) by unixbhaskar (guest, #44758) [Link]

You did wonder,Bram! ...and you will be missed! Rest In Peace.

Mourning Bram Moolenaar

Posted Aug 6, 2023 3:04 UTC (Sun) by NightMonkey (subscriber, #23051) [Link]

VIM is my favorite editor. Thank you, Bram. My condolences to his family and friends.

Mourning Bram Moolenaar

Posted Aug 6, 2023 7:00 UTC (Sun) by hrw (subscriber, #44826) [Link]

When I ran Vim on Amiga in previous millenium it felt weird. When I ran it on text terminal connected to SunOS it felt weird and I used "Ctrl-a k" to quit it by killing.

In 2000 I moved from AmigaOS to Debian/x86. Went through countless editors. And one of my Amiga friends told me "learn (g)Vim".

Learning process involved lot of cursing. But I learnt. Then added scripts, own settings and used Vim on everything. From Linux palmtop (Sharp Zaurus) to desktops, servers and devboards.

Donated to ICCF at the moment when sending money abroad did not ate donation.

Thanks Bram for giving me the editor to do my FOSS work.

Mourning Bram Moolenaar

Posted Aug 6, 2023 7:42 UTC (Sun) by francoisdc (guest, #160814) [Link]

Very sad.
Bram's phenomenal commitment will be an inspiration for years to come in the open source world and everywhere else.

Mourning Bram Moolenaar

Posted Aug 6, 2023 8:44 UTC (Sun) by ccezar (subscriber, #2749) [Link]

I use VIM everywhere, on each one operating system. Thank you Bram and rest in peace...

Mourning Bram Moolenaar

Posted Aug 6, 2023 8:47 UTC (Sun) by mkriheli (subscriber, #111972) [Link] (1 responses)

My daily driver and go to editor.

:echo "Rest in peace"
:q

Mourning Bram Moolenaar

Posted Aug 6, 2023 14:28 UTC (Sun) by plasma-tiger (guest, #115599) [Link]

Vim has been and will always be my de-facto Editor.
Faster than all the editors out there yet so much feature packed.

Rest in Peace, dear Bram. Your life's work is done.

ZZ

Mourning Bram Moolenaar

Posted Aug 7, 2023 4:46 UTC (Mon) by itisravi (guest, #64014) [Link]

Very sad news. Fancy text editors might come and go but VIM will always be the last one standing. Thank you, Bram.

Mourning Bram Moolenaar

Posted Aug 7, 2023 12:50 UTC (Mon) by mokagio (guest, #166400) [Link]

VIM greatly improved my quality of life as a developer and working within it is a daily source of joy.

Thank you Bram for all your work. You will be missed.

Mourning Bram Moolenaar

Posted Aug 7, 2023 13:34 UTC (Mon) by mikebenden (guest, #74702) [Link]

In my youth, I was an OLVWM user, and got into using `textedit` for my (rather basic at the time) needs. Switching to linux was easy, as OLVWM worked there too, in the early days.

When that ended, I picked `nedit` since it was the least painful for me to migrate to (wysiwyg, bonus for syntax highlighting), and kept going.

Hated `vi` throughout college, could not understand why anyone would put up with something like that... :)

Got my first sysadmin job, and my boss had me install a bunch of Solaris machines from scratch. The only editor shipping on the Solaris boot CD at the time was `vi`, so I proceeded to work through my first day on the job with gnashed teeth.

A day or two later, I found myself typing ":wq" into `nedit`... :D

Been a `vim` user ever since (approaching 20-ish years now).

Godspeed Bram, hope to meet you on the other side.

Mourning Bram Moolenaar

Posted Aug 9, 2023 10:21 UTC (Wed) by AndreiG (guest, #90359) [Link] (1 responses)

He finally figured out how to exit Vim .
RIP Bram !

Mourning Bram Moolenaar

Posted Sep 14, 2023 18:16 UTC (Thu) by callenmas (guest, #119560) [Link]

Ouch!! This comment really stung dude. How could you be so mean? JK. It was morbidly funny and super dark. It helped me realize how much Bram has done for all of us and how deeply he will be missed. It gave me insight into my own pain. Thank you for the joke.

Mourning Bram Moolenaar

Posted Aug 9, 2023 19:15 UTC (Wed) by fman (subscriber, #121579) [Link]

My daily driver since version 3 in the mid nineties, and the only project I have managed to contribute to in any significant way.
And a pleasure to receive guidance and advice in the process.

RIP Bram