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RIP Bram Moolenaar, the author of vim text editor(groups.google.com)

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tun@lemmy.world
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RIP, Mr. Bram Moolenaar.

Thank you for the VIM.

Now the time has come for the VIM future.

https://joshtronic.com/2018/08/12/will-vim-die-with-bram-moolenaar/

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kittenbridgeasteroid@discuss.tchncs.de
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Or we could all just move to nano and be less frustrated.

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Panja@lemmy.world
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Damn people here really hate nano 😂

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markstos@lemmy.world
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Na, it’s just that a memorial post is a time to pause the editor wars, if only for a moment, and pay respect.

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tun@lemmy.world
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I started with nano, learnt vim and now using neovim.

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lawrence@lemmy.world
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I am waiting for neovim 1.0, using vim until there.

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