Bram Moolenaar, the creator of the vim editor, passed away on August 3.
"Bram dedicated a large part of his life to VIM and he was very proud of
the VIM community that you are all part of." He will be missed.

https://groups.google.com/g/vim_announce/c/tWahca9zkt4

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On 2023-08-05, Chris Elvidge <chris@mshome.net> wrote:
> Bram Moolenaar, the creator of the vim editor, passed away on August 3.
> "Bram dedicated a large part of his life to VIM and he was very proud of
> the VIM community that you are all part of." He will be missed.
>
> https://groups.google.com/g/vim_announce/c/tWahca9zkt4
>

Sad.

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On Sat, 5 Aug 2023 22:28:51 +0100, Chris Elvidge <chris@mshome.net> wrote:
> Bram Moolenaar, the creator of the vim editor, passed away on August 3.
> "Bram dedicated a large part of his life to VIM and he was very proud of
> the VIM community that you are all part of." He will be missed.
>
> https://groups.google.com/g/vim_announce/c/tWahca9zkt4

I love vim, but I loved vi for years. For me, both worked
everywhere on everything, not something you can say about other
text editors

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On 2023-08-06, Julian Macassey <julian@n6are.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Aug 2023 22:28:51 +0100, Chris Elvidge <chris@mshome.net> wrote:
>> Bram Moolenaar, the creator of the vim editor, passed away on August 3.
>> "Bram dedicated a large part of his life to VIM and he was very proud of
>> the VIM community that you are all part of." He will be missed.
>>
>> https://groups.google.com/g/vim_announce/c/tWahca9zkt4
>
> I love vim, but I loved vi for years. For me, both worked
> everywhere on everything, not something you can say about other
> text editors
>
>

There is the vi family and emacs. Everything besides is outside the
Pale. (The edge of whiich is about 5 miles away)

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On Sun, 6 Aug 2023 08:43:27 -0000 (UTC)
Julian Macassey <julian@n6are.com> wrote:

> I love vim, but I loved vi for years. For me, both worked
> everywhere on everything, not something you can say about other
> text editors

Quite so, another couple of years and I'll have been using vi or
vim as my editor of choice for forty years - the first week or so was hell
and then it baked into the reflexes.

There was a short[2] period were I tried to switch to Brief[1]
which had one of the most intuitive keyboard interfaces ever designed
(which is not something that can be said of vi). I managed to use it
every time I thought about it, but every time I just wanted to edit a file
my fnigers tryped vi <filename>. I gave up, which is just as well Brief is
long vanished and vi is *still* everywhere[95], even on the work Macbook out
of the box!

[95] OK not on toys like Windows - but it can be
[1] by Under Ware
[2] I resisted!

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On 6 Aug 2023 10:45:12 GMT
maus <maus@deb.org> wrote:

> There is the vi family and emacs. Everything besides is outside the
> Pale. (The edge of whiich is about 5 miles away)

There is vi here well beyond the pale.

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