RIP Bram Moolenaar, the author of vim text editor

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• BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Type :f to pay respects.

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  • krimson@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    :f

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  • spez@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    :f

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    • fence_prude@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      :f

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  • 257m@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    :f

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• kool_newt@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  :%s/is/was/g

  :wq

  :(

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  • Bookmeat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I miss the days when it was common to use this syntax in messenger apps.

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    • kool_newt@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Oh ya me too! It’s so easy.

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    • CoderKat@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’ve worked in a few places that were full of Linux nerds (including my current job). We totally use sed style replacements and joke about vim escape keys (especially the classic :q). So you just need nerdier friends!

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  • twistypencil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Technically, that is not vim specific, conning from sed and ed, but definitely worked in vim as well as all vi clones

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    • chinpokomon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This is why it works so well. It’s also one of the reasons I prefer vi over other text editors. It isn’t always the most logical which commands and keys do what, but I like the consistency.

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• grte@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Pretty much any program I use I try to shift over to vim style keys. This guy’s reach went far beyond vim to me.

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  • DocMcStuffin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The hjkl keys came from Bill Joy when he wrote vi. The terminal he was using had arrows printed on those keys because it didn’t have dedicated arrow keys. It was a natural progression to reuse those keys for navigation.

    vim was a huge improvement over vi. To where it became the defacto replacement. Some distros even shipped vim as a replacement for vi. That was because the Linux Standard Base required vi to be present.

    Still a huge influence. vi was a bit painful to use when coming from vim. Would hjkl have died out if it wasn’t for vim? IDK. I think it would have been relegated to a niche corner of the unix/linux world.

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    • lontong@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The terminal he was using had arrows printed on those keys because it didn’t have dedicated arrow keys.

      That terminal was also responsible for ~ used as home dir in path and ^ as beginning of string in regex.

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• Tentaclius@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The guy onse famously responded to the question of how the community can ensure that vim project succeeds for the forseeable future with “keep me alive”. Seems like there is our fault :(

  RIP the legend. Keep Vimming.

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• tun@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  RIP, Mr. Bram Moolenaar.

  Thank you for the VIM.

  Now the time has come for the VIM future.

  joshtronic.com/…/will-vim-die-with-bram-moolenaar…

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  • kittenbridgeasteroid@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Or we could all just move to nano and be less frustrated.

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    • panja@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Damn people here really hate nano 😂

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    • tun@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I started with nano, learnt vim and now using neovim.

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• BudgieMania@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I probably owe that man a good part of my living. Proof that even gods are mortal I guess

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  • PutangInaMo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Great words. He may be gone now but he’s got all us needs in here thanking him and pondering the good ol days where his passion helped so many. Shit could be our eulogy from lemmy.

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• cloudy1999@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This news hit me hard this morning. Bram’s work has directly benefited my career for decades. He was a good human being who did good things. RIP Bram

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• abrer@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  RIP and thanks for all the hard work I’ve benefited from over the last decade.

  I’ll think of this man while explaining vim to my new hire next week.

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• SaintWacko@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  He has left his mark in a way that few are able to

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• deBaron@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That’s very sad to hear. Bram had a significant impact on me and how I use my computer. Rust zacht, Bram.

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• jeanma@lemmy.ninja ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  R.I.P. Bram.

  I use VIm every day, I enjoy using it, I am still in awe when discovering stuff, still after 17y!

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• dancingprotein@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  RIP Bram Moolenaar, and my condolences to his family

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• Touching_Grass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I loved him in jackass.

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  • sirnak@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Angry upvote

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• raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Rest in peace, Bram Moolenaar! Thank you for your work, I use vim every day.

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• cley_faye@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Dang.

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