Re: Sven Guckes passed away

Christian Brabandt wrote:
> On Mo, 21 Feb 2022, 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
>
So sorry to hear of Sven's passing. He was always very informative and
helpful.
Chip Campbell

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