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   Joe Cooper 💾 (swelljoe@mas.to)'s status on Sunday, 06-Aug-2023 11:45:15 JST Joe Cooper 💾

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   Bram was maybe unique. He made one of the most popular text editors in the world, improved and maintained it for decades, and he directed people who wanted to pay him for it to a charity that he was deeply involved in, ICCF Holland (International Child Care Fund). I'm not an expert on doing good and living a good life that leaves the world better than you found it, but if Moolenaar's not an example of it, I don't know who would be. I guess that's all I wanted to say. 2/2 https://iccf.nl/index.html

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     Joe Cooper 💾 (swelljoe@mas.to)'s status on Sunday, 06-Aug-2023 11:45:16 JST Joe Cooper 💾

     On the sad news of Bram Moolenaar's passing, I've been thinking about vim and the role it's played in my life. vim is among my oldest friendships. I've used vim longer and more than any other piece of software I can think of. Young me used the young vim on Amiga more than three decades ago, and every computer since has had vim. I've written almost all my code in vim. I wrote a book in vim. I've edited infinite config files in vim. In my muscle memory "edit text" is spelled "vim". 1/?

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