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A Tribute to Bram Moolenaar, The Maestro Behind Vim Code Editor
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this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2023
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Man, I'm sad ๐.
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...." ๐
Farewell and :wq
What was your impression of him?
Unfortunately, I only had limited interactions with him. I was the lead on a project that needed a few things from his team, and we had a number of meetings due to that.
From my limited contact, he seemed like a chill guy. Never made any unreasonable assumptions and had a technical view on how to solve problems.