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A Tribute to Bram Moolenaar, The Maestro Behind Vim Code Editor (stackdiary.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by skilledtothegills to c/technology
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Bram Moolenaar, the creator of the widely respected Vim code editor, has passed away at the age of 62. The family announced his passing in a heartfelt Google Groups message on August 5, revealing a sudden progression of a medical condition that had afflicted him.

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[–] [email protected] 126 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Calling it a code editor is like calling my car a “work transport vehicle”

Vim is an all purpose text-editing machine and although it has some definite quirks it solves problems. If you’ve used original vi you’ll know just how much more amazing vim is without changing the core concepts.

Much love to Bram, you made the world a better place ❤️

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago

100%. vim is pure genius.

:wq!

[–] MCForTheBest 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Vim is just way better than Vi if I have to use it to actually change more than a few characters in a text file/config.

It's probably just me but with Vi I struggle with inputting any text because I'm used to using the arrow keys to navigate. It keeps putting a 'B', in particular, and newlines whenever I want to navigate text.

[–] Vorticity 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I used to use arrow keys with VIM, but found that using hjkl worked better in some circumstances. Especially when writing reusable macros. It also avoids the need to move your fingers away from the main keys, making you faster.

I highly recommend getting use to using hjkl rather than the arrow keys.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Some cases? hjkl is such a euphoric way to move around that all my keyboards have the arrow keys mapped to those letters under a layer. Truly a game changer.