Bram Moolenaar, the creator of the widely respected Vim code editor, has passed away at the age of 62. The family announced his passing in a heartfelt Google Groups message on August 3, revealing a sudden progression of a medical condition that had afflicted him.
Man, I’m sad 😔.
I knew him personally (we worked for the same company at a point in time, although very different departments). I’m also a heavy vim user.
We once were in the same meeting where the unsuspecting meeting chair was taking nodes in emacs org-mode. Most of other meeting members were not geeks, so nobody knew who Bram was. I said “Bram, look at this, they’re taking notes in emacs just to piss you off”, to which he responded “yeah, and it is horrible…” 😁
Farewell and :wq
Moosemouse@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Calling it a code editor is like calling my car a “work transport vehicle”
Vim is an all purpose text-editing machine and although it has some definite quirks it solves problems. If you’ve used original vi you’ll know just how much more amazing vim is without changing the core concepts.
Much love to Bram, you made the world a better place ❤️
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 1 year ago
100%. vim is pure genius.
:wq!
MCForTheBest@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Vim is just way better than Vi if I have to use it to actually change more than a few characters in a text file/config.
It’s probably just me but with Vi I struggle with inputting any text because I’m used to using the arrow keys to navigate. It keeps putting a ‘B’, in particular, and newlines whenever I want to navigate text.
Vorticity@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I used to use arrow keys with VIM, but found that using
hjklworked better in some circumstances. Especially when writing reusable macros. It also avoids the need to move your fingers away from the main keys, making you faster.I highly recommend getting use to using
hjklrather than the arrow keys.