I wrote the iOS port of Vim and therefore exchanged a few emails with Bram. As you can guess, a very nice person. Thank you for Vim, Bram!

The only problem is, some users will then be unable to exit, stuck in macro recording mode for eternity.Just as Bram would want :)

How do I exit this thread?Thank you Sir Moolenaar for this journey.

Definitely deserves a black bar.VIM is definitely is one of those thin tiles that keep Open Source together:wq and RIP

It seems unthinkable that Dang will not bestow this honor upon him. Given that it&#x27;s currently early Saturday morning, we just have to wait.

This absolutely deserves a black bar.&lt;ESC&gt;:wq

I think you mean:<pre><code> iPlease![ESC]Vx1000000p</code></pre>

Same.  Variations of Vim have been my go to editor for many decades now.  Stellar achievement.

Another black bar +1. If anyone deserves it, it’s got to be the author of a critical part of my daily workflow for over 10 years.

This feels monumental… can we get the black bar for the entire weekend.This is the passing of someone that has fundamentally touched the lives of so many programmers… his work is now part of our very folklore, we make vim jokes, we emulate it in other tools, even the “enemy” (eMacs) eventually added evil mode (mind my humour it has sharp edges)… vim is mentioned in science fiction and has survived the journey from Unix to a plethora of other operating systems…He will be missed.

@-mentions don&#x27;t do anything. Email is the only reliable way to contact dang.

&gt;@dangThe email address I&#x27;ve used in the past has been responded to promptly, that&#x27;s probably more effective than an @ mention:<pre><code> hn@ycombinator.com</code></pre>

Or we could assume that dang is not awake 24&#x2F;7, and does not have a neural interface to everything that happens on HN and in the world, and actually does other things with his life than moderate HN.In short: he&#x27;s such a lazy git with zero work ethnic.

Not to sound bitter, but should we assume that dang does not consider the creator of vim to be worthy of a black banner? I keep forgetting that this site, despite having hacker in its name, is not really about hacking. Anyways, I hope Bram Moolenaar finds peace.

Bram Moolenaar was the original author, maintainer, release manager, and benevolent dictator for life of Vim.@dang can HN put a black banner for Bram Moolenaar please?

Sadly this was my thought too. It&#x27;s a way to start feeling super old, when the first generation start to die, and very few of the heros of open source have. But we&#x27;re all getting old...

@dang I know we don&#x27;t see the black bar often but I hope it is possibleYou&#x27;ll be seeing it *much* more often in the coming years as those of the older generation -- who made such large contributions -- pass on.

Incredibly sorry to hear this. The times I have seen his name.. or thought about who this guy might be, and that he not only is a super programmer but also a humanitarian. Too countless to think about. RIP.@dang I know we don&#x27;t see the black bar often but I hope it is possible

Bram defined the interface I&#x27;ve used to express myself in so many ways since my early teens. His contributions to software development reach far beyond the $EDITOR and pervasive interaction patterns we&#x27;re all so familiar with.Thoughts are with his friends and family right now. Rest in peace, Mr. Moolenaar.ZZ

Quite possibly my favorite software. Rest in peace.

Thank you Bram, you will not be forgotten. RIP

As a long time Vim user I’m extremely thankful for Bram’s creation and stewardship of an incredible piece of software. He gave the world an amazing gift.I’ve interacted with Bram a few times personally in the process of submitting changes to Vim, and I’ve observed many more interactions with others. I always had an immense amount of respect for the way he led the Vim project and interacted with the community. It is not uncommon to see open source software maintainers become burnt out or frustrated, particularly with a piece of software as quirky and complicated as Vim. But Bram was almost always respectful and patient with users and contributors, even when they were not.This is a loss for the software world. Bram, you will be missed.

As an Emacs user [1] I can only say: RIP and thank you, for making the lives of programmers and engineers worldwide easier, with the healthy competition of Emacs and VIM approaches to text editing.You live as long as your contribution to the world, and you can rest assured that a large part of us will still be using modal editing in our mind-controlled VR spatial googles.:wq--1: just this morning I was trying evil-mode once again...

RIP This man is an absolute legend. &lt;3

And such a genius name too: like Vi improved, but also vim, as in vim and vigor, a fantastic word to have as your companion programming.

Vim is fascinating because it revived a kind of wonky tool in vi.I remember learning about the command line and having to use original vi. It was weird. But Bram saw some underlying genius in the tool and revived it. Not just for vim itself, but all the vims, all the tools that have vim bindings, etc.

more likely a close relative simply got access to his accounts.

Judging by that the announcement email came from his own email, I&#x27;m guessing there has been some sort of redundancy setup done when the medical condition was initially detected.

Neovim seems to be going strong. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;neovim&#x2F;neovim">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;neovim&#x2F;neovim</a>

I&#x27;m worried about this and feel like &quot;vim&quot; as actively maintained software probably also died today.

Sending heartfelt condolences to Bram&#x27;s family. His last commit is just one month ago: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;vim&#x2F;vim&#x2F;commit&#x2F;4c0089d696b8d1d5dc40568f25ea5738fa5bbffb">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;vim&#x2F;vim&#x2F;commit&#x2F;4c0089d696b8d1d5dc40568f25...</a>. I wonder who else has access to vim.org and the official git repository and if there will be anyone step up to become vim&#x27;s BDFL.

RIP. Thank you for the tool that I’ve arguably used the longest.It is a software that brings joy each time I use it.

Oh damn, that makes me sad. I met him once at Vimfest in Berlin. He was such an intelligent and humble guy.

Thank you for everything, Bram. vim has been my editor forever and I can’t imagine using any other.Can we please have a black banner?:q

Few contribute so meaningfully to the world through software as Bram did. I donated an amount as if I were purchasing vim as an expensive commercial text editor.For most death announcements on HN, I have to look up who they were. Not this one. I greatly appreciate his work and contributions to the world.

For everyone reading this who has ever adored vim, or any of the editors that would go on to be inspired by vim, I can think of no better tribute to Bram than to make a donation to the charity that he spent the better part of his life advocating for.

Thanks for bringing this up! It was a good reminder for me to donate. May he rest in peace.

&gt; and the number of people who have spent that much time purely in their spare time (i.e. not as part of their job, like Torvalds or van Rossum) is smaller still.I agree, but the fact that there&#x27;s a non-zero amount of people doing it shouldn&#x27;t be overlooked. For example maintainer of qutebrowser (who also happen to be in pytest core team) and apart from a teaching job at an university a couple of months per year, he&#x27;s working full time on OSS. The main characteristics they share (at least those I met) seem to be a deep love for the craft, a deep love for people, and be virtually unfazed by the amount of money they can make if they weren&#x27;t doing that.

I don&#x27;t know if Bram&#x27;s family has this thread or is reading it, but the extent to which his work has impacted the software development community is enormous.Vim was one of the first pieces of software I learned when I switched to Linux in college. It was tricky at first, then it delighted me to no end. It remains a daily part of my life nearly 20 years later, and I&#x27;m still learning more about it every single year.I can&#x27;t count the number of times I wish I could drop out of insert mode in normal web browser text boxes.Bram&#x27;s insistence of donating his earnings to helping the children of Uganda is also incredibly selfless, and it&#x27;s impossible to mention him without bringing this up [1].We&#x27;ll miss you Bram. We&#x27;ll be learning from you for decades to come.[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vim.org&#x2F;sponsor&#x2F;faq.php" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vim.org&#x2F;sponsor&#x2F;faq.php</a>

Bram had been spending over 30 years on Vim; and not just &quot;the occasional patch&#x2F;bugfix&quot;, but significant amounts, and almost every single day for some years.The number of people who spent that much time working on Open Source is very small, and the number of people who have spent that much time purely in their spare time is smaller still. In fact, I don&#x27;t really know of anyone who even comes close to Bram.The number of people who spent this much time volunteering for anything is very small.Bram&#x27;s effort on Vim was phenomenal and exceptional by any standard.---I only met Bram in person once, in 2014, when he talked about Zimbu[1]; at some point I must have given a bit of a skeptical look, and he promptly looked at me and asked &quot;oh, you don&#x27;t agree? Why not?&quot; It was a nice talk with lots of &quot;audience engagement&quot; like this. We spent some time talking during the rest of the day and the next day; we discussed and joked about lots of things; I don&#x27;t recall talking much about Vim: it just didn&#x27;t come up. I found him a very friendly, warm, and likeable person.Sven Guckes (who passed away last year) did organize a little &quot;Ask Me Anything&quot; type workshop with Bram, and I discovered Bram struggled remembering the ins-and-outs of some of the lesser used Vim features just as much as the rest of us :-)[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=_O-QdG2X1Lw">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=_O-QdG2X1Lw</a>)

Thanks for posting the donation link and the reminder, I&#x27;ve made a donation as well.Vim has shaped so many aspects of my professional life; I&#x27;ll forever be grateful to Bram for his work and contributions. Rest in peace, Bram.

The news made me unexpectedly said. There are not many people that felt so close without ever knowing them, just because I used their software. Thank you for the reminder to donate: the least thing one can do now. I think most of the digital stuff I ever produced in my life was using vim. Software, scripts, websites, theses, a book, I actually even used a plugin to fill out text boxes in the web using vim.All the stray &#x27;i&#x27;s in documents or source code in stuff I had to write with other editors give evidence to my dedication. Thank you Bram! May you live forever in vim.

Yay, PayPal let me through. I just had to turn off uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger... But for Bram, I&#x27;m ok with it.

This is a great idea. Bram has made a huge positive impact on the world, even if most people aren&#x27;t aware of it. I&#x27;d love to help make it even bigger.Edit: Hmm... PayPal seems to throw error after error at me when I try to donate. I&#x27;ll keep trying.

Thanks for the link, should have made a donation years and years ago. Better late than never, I suppose.

I wrote on twitter that vim is a masterpiece. It&#x27;s the gleaming precise machine tool on which so much of modernity was crafted. It&#x27;s so hard to quantify Bram&#x27;s impact, because he did so much through so powerful a force multiplier.I started as a Unix sysadmin 25 years ago and kept gravitating towards vim. One practical reason is because it paid off to be familiar with vi, which is nearly always still available on just-installed or bare-bones systems. But another is how welcoming and leveling the Vim community was. It was so easy to get great macros and tips, and everyone was just super friendly about it. I remember someone in #vim irc teaching me &quot;gqap&quot; to wrap a paragraph, and they very naturally took the time to explain how it all worked. There was no sneering on from the community. I think Bram&#x27;s empathy and leadership was a huge part of that attitude in the community.I&#x27;m a regular annual donor on Vim&#x27;s behalf, and this morning donated another €250 in Bram&#x27;s memory. People should only donate what they can afford, we all have different means, but I&#x27;d encourage folks to work out what a great commercial editor or IDE would have cost them in licensing over their use time, and to consider donating in proportion.:wq Bram

Since there&#x27;s a ton of Google employees here - reminder that Google does gift matching for this charity!

It looks like Bram was the treasurer, so his medical condition could potentially have something to do with it.

Who knows why there&#x27;s no financial statement for 2022? 2021 is on the home page. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;iccf-holland.org&#x2F;iccf.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;iccf-holland.org&#x2F;iccf.html</a>

&gt; &quot;I&#x27;m doing exactly what he would have wanted me to do, donating to ICCF Holland. If you&#x27;re a vim&#x2F;nvim&#x2F;other edition user, I suggest you to do the same: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;iccf-holland.org&#x2F;donate.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;iccf-holland.org&#x2F;donate.html</a> .&quot;In view of 
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lesswrong.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;7FzD7pNm9X68Gp5ZC&#x2F;why-our-kind-can-t-cooperate" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lesswrong.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;7FzD7pNm9X68Gp5ZC&#x2F;why-our-ki...</a>I&#x27;m calling out that I have donated.

I have donated a few times and always got a personal email from Bram in thanks. These were not large amounts by any means.Rest in Peace, Bram.

Few people could probably argue that they helped as many humans in dire situations like Bram did in his life. Vim was the first time I came across &quot;charityware&quot; as vim encourages users to donate to International Child Care Fund Holland on its splash screen, instead of begging for money for itself. I feel a bit of shame when I say that I&#x27;ve only donated to ICCF once over all these years....As a remembrance of Bram and to thank him for building the editor I&#x27;ve been using for as long as I can remember, I&#x27;m doing exactly what he would have wanted me to do, donating to ICCF Holland. If you&#x27;re a vim&#x2F;nvim&#x2F;other edition user, I suggest you to do the same: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;iccf-holland.org&#x2F;donate.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;iccf-holland.org&#x2F;donate.html</a>If you&#x27;re a (neo)vim user, there is more information at `:help iccf` as well.Thank you Bram for everything. I&#x27;m sure your spirit and lines written will stay with me and others for a very long time in the future.

Rest in peace, sir. My thoughts are with the entire Moolenaar family and his loved ones.

Such sad news! Condolences to his family, friends and thousands of admirers worldwide. One way to commemorate his life is to donate to the charityware cause he championed: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.iccf-holland.org" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.iccf-holland.org</a>

An absolute legend of computing, you fire up Vim you have his unforgettable name.RIP

rest in peace, bram. thanks for all you&#x27;ve done to software world. you will be missed by many, including those Ugandan kids whose lives have been changed for the better.to the bereaved, I send you my deepest condolences.

:qRIP and thank you. Thoughts are with his loved ones right now.

Yeah, relate. It shows you that with some good software, you can make an impact.

Damn… I have been using Vim for decades and never thought once about the people responsible for it. I need to be more thoughtful of this to acknowledge people’s excellent work.

Absolutely. I&#x27;ve written everything in Vim for almost as long as Vim has been around -- three books, dozens of talks and papers, who knows how many lines of code . . .I had been joking on social media a few weeks ago that Vim must be &quot;done&quot; since patches stopped appearing about a month ago. Can&#x27;t believe that the guy who created maybe the most important tool in my entire arsenal is gone.

I am likewise surprised by how hard this hits. I shouted out loud when I read the headline! Quite a reaction to somebody who I only ever saw one photo of and read the occasional release notes etc. Yet as a vim user, he has been part my daily activities for years.The name Bram Moolenaar has hovered across all my work…Thank you Mr. Moolenaar.

Yes, very hard. I feel like I knew him - kind of silly given I&#x27;ve never met him and I don&#x27;t think have even crossed emails with him. Yet I&#x27;ve used his work for decades and I think it&#x27;s fair to say that there&#x27;s a lot of him in Vim in a very real way. Wish I&#x27;d sent him a note to say thanks. GNU Bram.

It seems that behind that bare prompt and message lies a whole era where things were simpler in many dimensions. A bunch of help text, a charity suggestion, a cursor ... it was as simple as mysterious and capable.

Wow that hits rather hard actually. I never knew him other than through the welcome message on Vim, but he made one of the tools I rely on the most in my daily life.Thanks Bram, have a good afterlife.

Rest in piece Bram, your invention of keybindings will be everlastingly remembered by generations

Rest in piece Bram, and my condolences to his family. I hope to see the mainline vim project innovate and thrive so that Bram’s legacy can live on.

Thank you Bram for giving us software we can love and putting a :smile on our faces.

Rest In Peace.VIM is still among my top used editors. And Bram was the one that made sure it kept improving and being useful for all those years, since I first used it on my Slackware install.

Goofing around with Vim as a quiet &quot;rebellion&quot; to my professor demoing EMACs went much further than the joke I started it as - it became a gateway drug to me using the terminal for almost everything and understanding how computers work at a much lower level.Thank you Bram for the work you put into Vim!

Sincerely saddened. Farewell Bram, and thank you for all the things you have brought to the world.

Thank you Bram for this amazing software that gave me so pleasure in learning and mastering!

Thank you Bram.Thank you for your humanitarian efforts, your generosity, and of course your genius. It is because of these traits that your loss, though I never knew you personally, hits so hard. RIP.:wq!

If it&#x27;s something that you use for a large part of your day, then there is nothing weird about it.

I was just trying to think how to say the same thing but wasn&#x27;t sure how to say it. Since first discovering Vim back in the 1990s it&#x27;s been something I&#x27;ve used almost every working day.It&#x27;s probably my favourite piece of software. Where ever I go, whatever platform I use, whatever I write, I use Vim.Bram&#x27;s work has made my life better. This is sad news indeed. :(

Vim and its descendant modes in other editors has drastically improved my life, which maybe is a weird thing to say about a text editor but it&#x27;s true. I am very sorry to hear of his passing.

Have been using Vim for years since college. It helps me and teaches me a lot.
Thank you, Bram. RIP.

So sad to hear. Vim got me hooked on programming. It&#x27;s truly a revolutionary editor, and now has been adopted and improved by so many others. Bram really touched so many people through Vim. Thank you for your immense contribution to computer science. RIP.

How many of us will be remembered like this? Not too many, I imagine.  I&#x27;m teaching my 8 year old daughter to use VIM. As an African, what he has done puts me to shame.

I had interacted with him over the mailing list a few times and he was always very helpful. I&#x27;ll miss him.ZZ

There is a collection of people and cultural artifacts that are contemporary to us, though usually not our exact age. They pass away, one at a time, until we are all that is left of the world we once defined, a world that eventually is gone.Bram’s passing is another chip at the passing of the world I knew, where vim was new.Thank you Bram for your excellent and enviable contribution to computing.

RIP, thanks for all the hard work and care.

RIP Bram. Thanks for creating the best text editor the world’s ever seen!

Bram was an inspiration, not just for developing vim, which so many of we programmers used to get into a flow state programming. But also for his work on charity. Deserving of the black banner!

Thank you, Bram, for vim. Thank you for how useful it is, and how rock solid it&#x27;s always been for me.No feeble attempt at humour from me, just heartfelt sadness and gratitude.

A lot of this advice is about turning vim into a &quot;modern&quot; text editor with a language server configured.I used to use vim but lately I switched to Helix, which is basically vim but with all the good features and plugins built into it and without a configuration&#x2F;extension language. Almost all of the features are easily discoverable by just pressing spacebar, and the rest by browsing the (small) documentation, and I can think of a way to do all the things Bram talks about from within Helix, often better (because it&#x27;s relying on the language server).Still, the main point about learning your tools by detecting inefficiencies and searching for a better way is always valid, and I&#x27;m sure that all these things Vim was already doing at the time helped pave the way for modern editors. RIP.

That presentation is also available as PDF with notes from his homepage:<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;moolenaar.net&#x2F;habits_2007.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;moolenaar.net&#x2F;habits_2007.pdf</a>

Loved his &quot;7 Habits For Effective Text Editing 2.0&quot; (2007) talk and humor [1]&quot;How many of you are mostly using Emacs?&quot;a bunch of raised hands&quot;Okay, we&#x27;ll try to convert some people today!&quot;RIP, Bram Moolenaar[1] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;p6K4iIMlouI" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;p6K4iIMlouI</a>

:wqa!RIP Legend :([Mods - Request for black bar, please]

For me, Bram is probably among names like Tarkovsky, Stravinsky and Attenborough, who greatly affected the way I see&#x2F;feel life. R.I.P.

OH NO!!!! This guy literally changed my life by making vim. I could not imagine coding without vim!!!It&#x27;s weird but coding in vim is going to take on a new significance now. Each keystroke, somehow saluting him.Very sad....I think we definitely need the black navbar of mourning.

Very sad news - been using vim for decades, still use it every day as pretty much all of my colleagues use VSCode... I met him briefly at FOSDEM 20+ years ago, will have to see if I can find the photo I took of him looking slightly bemused when I showed him vim running on a Linux-ified iPaq with a touchscreen and no keyboard!As others have said, time to make a donation in his honour.

Wow ;_; when I see our legends pass like this (you feel like they will live forever), it reminds me how short of a time we have here. Condolences to family and friends, he was truly exceptional in life. :wq

As a newbie user of vim, i have to admit, this is a really sad news for all open-source community !
RIP Bram !

RIP. Vim is my main editor for 15 years already. I spend several hours in Vim everyday. It&#x27;s so ingrained in my soul, I can&#x27;t imagine how to work without Vim.

:wq!Eternal rest grant unto him. May perpetual light shine upon him.

Very sad to read this. Thank you, Bram, and see you in another life!

What a legend, the VI message stood out in my memory of Bram, what a kind and clever person.

I will likely use some form of vim as my editor for the entirety of my professional life. Wish I could say I wrote software that would be used for an entire person’s lifetime. RIP Bram, you did good.

Damn. Rest in peace. Thank you for your hard work on my favourite editor. All the best to his loved ones.

Hmm. I also first used vim inside of Slackware and also use arrow keys in vim.Not sure I&#x27;ve ever run into another person who admitted that publicly. Not that I think it&#x27;s something that one should actually be ashamed of, it makes total sense. Just not a popular approach.

RIP. I started using Vim on Slackware iirc. Haven’t stopped.I checked out various other clones back in the day — vim was way better afaict.PS: A major reason I use Vim rather than Emacs is that the arrow keys worked in Vim but not emacs. On Slackware. No I don’t use the ijkl keys to move in Vim. :) :) #blubvimmer

RIP Bram and thank you. I use VIM every day.

Bram wrote the only bit of software that never let me down once. RIP. You&#x27;ve done good to the world.

I&#x27;ve used vim for everything going on my entire career now.It started in my senior year as a CS student - in an operating systems course, we were introduced to a lot of linux stuff and the professor taught Vim as part of his course. At first I rebelled. I chose to develop most of my projects in eclipse&#x2F;Java at that point and had developed an aversion to the command line. That, plus Vim&#x27;s learning curve made me hate it at first.Fast forward a year at my first job at an embedded systems shop writing in pure C, all the vets used vim and I saw how fast they were with it and it made me want to learn. I think my first &quot;aha!&quot; moment was when I accidentally entered visual mode and prepended several lines at once with a comment. After that I was hooked, and while I&#x27;m typically one of the only ones using pure vim on any team I&#x27;m on, inevitably after a year or so at the job people see how I use it and start asking about it.

As a former colleague, I remember one funny interaction with him. I was sitting in the same desk but on a different floor. One sleepy morning I tried to oust him from his desk and once I recognized him we ended up chatting few minutes about open source at Google and his involvement. Great person and as a Vim user forever grateful for his efforts.

God bless you Mr. Moolenaar. VIM is the editor that built me, going on 20+ years now.I only gave once several years ago to help children of Uganda. I will do again in his honor, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;iccf-holland.org&#x2F;donate.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;iccf-holland.org&#x2F;donate.html</a>.:wq

Still to this day when I start my daily vim session I see his personal message to donate to the children of Uganda. I&#x27;ve been seeing this message for well over 20 years, my entire career for sure. What an impact to have on IT, and on the world. You&#x27;re forever remembered Bram.

Now this is a bit random but many years ago I run into a Dutch couple running some kind of wildlife farm in Ghana. When they found out I was geekish they said a relative of theirs was big in the open source world. Turned out to be Bram.I can&#x27;t quite remember what the relationship was but since then every time I use vim (not often admittedly ) I think of this Dutch woman looking after a jumble of wild animals in the middle of nowhere...

With things like this, you realize how short life is, and sometimes how brittle it can be. I often forget that the people that built the foundation of what we use every day are still with us, and we have a short time to be able to show them appreciation before we say thank you to someone who has gone, if you know of someone that has dedicated time to something that you use, show your appreciation this week. It might be the last time that you have the opportunity to make that human contact.Thank you, sir. &lt;3 vim

See also <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;vim&#x2F;comments&#x2F;lbjw3u&#x2F;good_guides_on_vim&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;vim&#x2F;comments&#x2F;lbjw3u&#x2F;good_guides_on_...</a>It was the &#x27;IRC style tutorial&#x27; ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vi-improved.org&#x2F;irc-style-tutorial&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vi-improved.org&#x2F;irc-style-tutorial&#x2F;</a> ) which helped make it click for me. (I feel like that was a lot longer ago than the publish date of 2016).

I loved that website at first but abandoned it in frustration an hour after I subscribed, because turned out it didn’t work with my QWERTZ layout.

For anyone looking to learn Vim, this is an educational game that&#x27;s actually pretty fun:<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vim-adventures.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vim-adventures.com&#x2F;</a>

Sad. I didn&#x27;t interact with Bram much, but I did have an email exchange with him early in my software developer journey. I submitted a few patches to Vim and he helped me work through them to get them approved&#x2F;merged. He was very patient and kind even though I was a complete newbie.

My respects. 
I use vim daily.
So long and thanks for all the fish!

Only interaction with him was via mailing list but liked and respected him. Been using VIM for ~20 years now. Upset at his death. Its too early to pass away at just 62.

One of silent heroes of the open-source world - making life of so many people easier and more enjoyable every day. RIP.

It didn’t occur to me until now that vim is perhaps the oldest tool I’ve used continuously since the early days of my education and career. And I don’t just use it, I use it every single day and have for probably 30 years.Thank you Bram.

I did exactly the same thing. In fact Bram was the first &quot;well known&quot; developer I ever got into &quot;contact&quot; with. Kept his reply mail to this day. ;)

The very first time in life that I reported a bug to an OSS project was to Vim, by email to Bram, when I was in high school. Thinking back from now, that was definitely not a good way to report bugs, but Bram was super helpful and responded kindly to this ignorant kid.Thank you Bram, and RIP.

I was looking for a post like this because I couldn’t agree more. While I didn’t get a tattoo like you , I can’t imagine living without a tool that is one of the most important to my livelihood.

Bram was really important for me. I remember the joy of learning how to use vim and how easy it was to bond with other fellow users.Who would imagine a text editor could instill such a strong sense of identity into its users?The first time I’ve been to SF I even got a “:w” tattooed on me.Bram, you will be missed.

RIP and thank you for vim, your effort and for caring about good software.
ZZ

Thank you Barm.
:wqa!R.I.PFrom a man who use vim everyday.

RIP Bram, VIM is an awesome gift to humanity

Thank you Bram for creating something that is truly useful and we use nearly everyday. May you Rest In Peace. My condolences to his family.

I learned vim as a kid in the 90s and used it my entire life. I&#x27;ve never used anything else. The hours it has saved me through its efficiency and productivity has probably extended my lifespan.Vim was born out of a simple system and a deep empathy and understanding of what a developer really needs.In every line of code, every efficient series of keystrokes, his legacy endures. May it last forever. Rest in peace.

RIPvim might seem small on the grand scheme of things (npi), but as an interface to almost anything on a computer and for so long.. it&#x27;s a real wound to read thissaying this as a mostly emacser..:T_T

That&#x27;s an especially poignant view; you can see the activity start strong last year and then fade out until it just ends.Rest in peace, Bram; thank you for your work.

Just looking at the per month commit counts, it looks like they dropped substantially from February this year compared to the past.

It&#x27;s so surreal to me that I can look at his commit graph on github and see he was working right up until very recently. Rest in peace.<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;brammool">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;brammool</a>

Done €100 to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;iccf-holland.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;iccf-holland.org&#x2F;</a>

I am so sorry to hear this. I will make a contribution today in his memory.

In 2000 we organized a large outdoor LAN party for a week in the middle of nowhere hosting around 600 Unix&#x2F;Linux aficionados. I was very proud to have found Bram to speak there at our event. On the days ahead I became very anxious to welcome this paragon of open source contributors, but I soon found out Bram was one of the most fun and caring people I had the honour to meet. Not just did he tell us his story of developing vim, he also organised an in promptu quiz on Unix and networking. I have fond memories of Bram and am truly sad to hear he passed away. Bram truly captured the soul of open source.

&gt; 8: How can the community ensure that the Vim project succeeds for the foreseeable future?&gt; Keep me alive.[1][1] 10 Questions with Vim’s creator, Bram Moolenaar (2014)
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.binpress.com&#x2F;vim-creator-bram-moolenaar-interview&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.binpress.com&#x2F;vim-creator-bram-moolenaar-intervie...</a>

RIP, a great guy, a public benefactor and a great coder.I think the black stripe should be on HN today; it&#x27;s quite justified.

RIP, Bram. Thank you, from a 22-year Vim user.

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;photos.app.goo.gl&#x2F;BtVZMoZjdEmPKCeu9" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;photos.app.goo.gl&#x2F;BtVZMoZjdEmPKCeu9</a>This photo remembers me a funny discussion at that time.One of the participants said he use vim to write .emacs file.&quot;Why don&#x27;t you use Emacs for that?&quot; I asked.&quot;Because if I have to edit .emacs, that means emacs isn&#x27;t configured the way I liked it. So I use vim in that case&quot;

Wow these are really great photos - I&#x27;m sure both due to most culture in Japan is dripping in beauty, but also because Bram just takes really good photos!Thank you for sharing.

Here is photos from Bram when they were at the Japan trip: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;photos.google.com&#x2F;share&#x2F;AF1QipMc4NF8j66ohinWutVHktl4hHaw-c25JsFT1S-lSGcrb_oVfkY4MAgbEoWl2qC06A?key=Xzc0NW9STlhubTJrM2lyUVlQdDhHSW42N0tidG5n" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;photos.google.com&#x2F;share&#x2F;AF1QipMc4NF8j66ohinWutVHktl4...</a> &quot;Tokyo 2018 (Nov 17 – 25, 2018)&quot;His website has a lot of other albums he published for everyone to enjoy: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;moolenaar.net&#x2F;albums.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;moolenaar.net&#x2F;albums.html</a>

I had an opportunity to talk to the Bram Moolenaar when VimConf 2018 was held in Japan. First and only time Bram visited Japan.I was there as a volunteer staff, sitting at a reception desk. Although vim is the text editor I use everyday, I&#x27;m not that enthusiastic to participate the vim conference. I&#x27;m not a vim developer. I don&#x27;t use some of the advanced vim features. I don&#x27;t ask much for a text editor. I use vim simply because it&#x27;s available in all environments I could possibly use. I was a volunteer staff because I was asked by one of my colleague at that time who was a serious vim user and organized the VimConf.So I didn&#x27;t have a plan to talk to Bram at all. There were so many Japanese vim developers and serious vim users there who want to talk to Bram. This may be the first and last chance to talk to Bram in person for them. I don&#x27;t want to waste the precious time for them.Then, I learned at the conference that recent vim release includes termdebug plugin which allows vim to behave as a gdb frontend. Since I am a C++ programmer, I started playing with it. Then, I quickly found a bug. termdebug assume there&#x27;s only one function for a name and couldn&#x27;t handle C++ function overloading.I discussed this issue with Bram Moolenaar in a spare time.There aren&#x27;t many other things I can tell about Bram.At the after party of VimConf 2018, Bram absolutely refused to use a cup and drink beer directly from a beer bottle. It wasn&#x27;t a small 333 ml beer bottle. It was a big 633 ml beer bottle.Before the VimConf 2018, Bram went to climb Mt. Fuji during his stay in Japan.

So sad, I had the honor to meet Bram at a FOSS talk with RMS which he organized in Amsterdam RAI. I&#x27;ll never forget that day. I&#x27;ve been using VIM for a many decades and I&#x27;m sure to keep using it for a long time. Many thanks for all the work and condolences for his family.

Looking at the commit history, Bram was responsible for the majority of the development. Interestingly, the second most active vim contributor is a neovim developer (possibly porting fixes from neovim).

I believe there is a development team actually in place but they probably have to decide the way forward now. I have little doubt it will continue.

Hopefully something is in place with this official repo and we don&#x27;t get a bunch of forks all over github.
RIP Bram

That&#x27;s a sad news for the Vim community. Given that development was basically focused around Bram, it makes me wonder, what will happen with Vim now?WIll someone step up and continue to develop Vim, or it will fade away and Neovim take its place?

Bram Moolenaar has died