Bram Moolenaar Passed Away

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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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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.

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.

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

I hope it ultimately re-organizes as more of a community effort now like neovim.

I don't want to sound like an asshole but maybe we all should focus on Neovim from now on. I find in much better than original Vim in many ways.