Re: Sven Guckes passed away

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.

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On 2022-02-21 05:48, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
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> Forwarding this text from Antonio Colombo:
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> 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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