He finally figured out how to exit.
Dark humour aside, sad to hear this. Vim is my favorite text mode editor; the contribution he has made to the open source world, as well as his charity work for Ugandan AIDS victims, will not be forgotten.
GNU Bram Moolenar
:wq
Couldn’t have said it better
ddp
Bwahaha! I have stolen your comment!
:x!
A person is lucky to do one thing that affects a huge number of people’s lives for the better, and even luckier if they know what it was and have been appreciated for it. Well done, Bram.
After a brief time in Insert, we all revert to Default mode eventually.
:wq
I will never quit my vim again.
Wow. Now I wish I knew more about him. I’ve used vim nearly every day of my career.
I use it now as part of ranger file manager. Such a great text editor and all I use it for is editing config files.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
It’s difficult to compute the additional world domestic product that was created due to vim, to compute the impact one person had on… everything.
A very sad day.
A person is lucky to do one thing that affects a huge number of people’s lives for the better, and even luckier if they know what it was and have been appreciated for it. Well done, Bram. Rest easy.
