Re: Sven Guckes passed away

Never met Sven, but I have appreciated his work in VIM for some time. I was very sad to see this news. Thoughts and prayers to Sven, his friends, and family.

On Monday, February 21, 2022 at 9:20:21 PM UTC-7 Philip Rhoades wrote:

Stan,


On 2022-02-22 05:47, Stan Brown wrote:
> That's sad news.
>
> I remember a number of interactions with Sven, in email and in various
> newsgroups, and he was always courteous, and generous with his time.
> He'll be missed.
>
> Bram, I like your idea to dedicate release 9 to his memory.


+1

Phil.


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> Stan Brown
> Tehachapi, CA, USA
> https://BrownMath.com
>
> On 2022-02-21 05:48, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
>>
>> Forwarding this text from Antonio Colombo:
>>
>> ==================
>>
>> Our friend Sven Guckes died in Berlin on February 20, 2022.
>> He was diagnosed with a brain tumor in December 2021.
>> He went to a hospital, but surgeons could not do much for him.
>> At the end of January he was moved to a Hospice.
>> A group of friends has been with him as much as possible during all
>> his
>> sickness.
>> He died while Pugs, one of his friends, was with him.
>> They had just finished a chat, and Sven was smiling, but then he
>> quieted
>> down and in a few moments he did not breathe any more.
>>
>> Sven (when he was still a student at the Free University of Berlin)
>> was very
>> active in the Vim development team in the Nineties. He was the one who
>> set
>> up the vim.org domain. Later on he had the idea of "What is Vim?", an
>> explanation of Vim in six kilobytes, and helped with some versions of
>> Vimtutor.
>>
>> Sven worked (and gave talks) also on a lot of other free software
>> projects,
>> let us remember here just "plain" vi and mutt, but there are several
>> others. He had friends all over the world, and helped them, for
>> software
>> problems and for real life problems in any way he could.
>>
>> Let us recall here just one of his "pet projects", the mythical
>> "alternate.fan.warlord" FAQ, in which appears one of his signatures,
>> in newsgroup alt.fan.warlord.
>>
>> Vale, Sven!
>>
>> ==================
>>
>>
>> I met Sven only a couple of times. What I remember most is his never
>> ending enthusiasm. He was a good person.
>>
>> I would like to dedicate the upcoming Vim 9.0 release to Sven in his
>> memory.
>>
>> Article in German:
>> https://linuxnews.de/2022/02/sven-guckes-verstorben/
>> Hacker news: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30410077
>>
>
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