• Akria@beehaw.org
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    2 years ago

    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

  • Beej Jorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org
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    2 years ago

    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.

  • binaryphile@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    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.