Here is a message from his family

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        A lot of the comment’s I’ve seen everywhere over this news is “exiting vim” out of respect and admiration. They aren’t being disrespectful but honoring the legacy that he fostered, and remembering the hard parts of his software.

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          There’s a difference between making a vim reference and “oh, a mourning family message? quick, i must find a stale joke to crack for internet points”

          Feel free to tell yourselves this is respectful. I think some people here have been on the internet for too long.

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      Technically, that is not vim specific, conning from sed and ed, but definitely worked in vim as well as all vi clones

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    Pretty much any program I use I try to shift over to vim style keys. This guy’s reach went far beyond vim to me.

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      The hjkl keys came from Bill Joy when he wrote vi. The terminal he was using had arrows printed on those keys because it didn’t have dedicated arrow keys. It was a natural progression to reuse those keys for navigation.

      vim was a huge improvement over vi. To where it became the defacto replacement. Some distros even shipped vim as a replacement for vi. That was because the Linux Standard Base required vi to be present.

      Still a huge influence. vi was a bit painful to use when coming from vim. Would hjkl have died out if it wasn’t for vim? IDK. I think it would have been relegated to a niche corner of the unix/linux world.

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        The terminal he was using had arrows printed on those keys because it didn’t have dedicated arrow keys.

        That terminal was also responsible for ~ used as home dir in path and ^ as beginning of string in regex.

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    The guy onse famously responded to the question of how the community can ensure that vim project succeeds for the forseeable future with “keep me alive”. Seems like there is our fault :(

    RIP the legend. Keep Vimming.

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    This news hit me hard this morning. Bram’s work has directly benefited my career for decades. He was a good human being who did good things. RIP Bram

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    RIP and thanks for all the hard work I’ve benefited from over the last decade.

    I’ll think of this man while explaining vim to my new hire next week.

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    R.I.P. Bram.

    I use VIm every day, I enjoy using it, I am still in awe when discovering stuff, still after 17y!

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    That’s very sad to hear. Bram had a significant impact on me and how I use my computer. Rust zacht, Bram.