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Bram Moolenaar, creator of vim, has died.

If you are a vim user, consider donating to International Child Care Fund Holland - a charity Bram heavily supported. You can find the link on vim.org

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[–] Ghosty141@feddit.de 31 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Oh wow this so sad. Ever since I used vimtutor the first time, Ive used vim keys in every editor I used. Hopefully the project keeps doing well without him, its a great piece of software.

[–] LuckyJones@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My entire life has vim key bindings. My window manager and browser all have vim key bindings. I work in vim. I write my shopping lists in vim.

I really can't overstate how ingrained vim is in my day to day life. Bram had a big impact.

[–] black_dinamo@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Same here OP

Bram will be missed. ✊🏾 :wq

[–] havocpants@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Me too. I've used vim to make my living for at least the last 20 years.

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