Re: Where is Bram?

Hi,

On Sat, Aug 5, 2023 at 9:11 AM Christian Brabandt <cblists@256bit.org> wrote:
>
> Am 2023-08-05 16:30, schrieb Yegappan Lakshmanan:
> > On Sat, Aug 5, 2023 at 5:53 AM Maxim Kim <habamax@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> https://groups.google.com/g/vim_announce/c/tWahca9zkt4
> >>
> >
> > I am truly saddened and shocked to hear this news.
> >
> > I have been following him for more than 25 years and have interacted
> > with him for more than 22 years. He has been an inspiration to me and
> > many others. He has really changed the world for the better. He has
> > single handedly improved the productivity of countless developers and
> > companies around the world. He dedicated his entire life to work on
> > Vim. His vision and ability to design some of the most complex
> > features
> > (such as the vim9script compiler, spell check, syntax highlighting,
> > channels, tab pages, virtual text, and many others) have always amazed
> > me.
> >
> > We will all miss him deeply. Rest In Peace, Bram, and thank you for
> > everything.
>
>
> As all of you, so was I deeply shocked when I heard the news. Bram was a
> great leader
> to the Vim community and I really enjoyed working with him over the past
> years, since I became
> involved with the development of Vim almost 20 years ago.
>
> Bram was of great inspiration in creating a great community, helping
> people with his charity and
> he was a great mentor. And now he left too soon. We lost a great leader
> and I regret never having
> met him in person...
>
> However to all of the community: I will continue and I hope all of the
> other contributors will
> also keep up the good work. I do have access to the Vim homepage and the
> Vim organization (not sure
> if all the rights, but I am sure we will work on the details in the near
> future.
>
> Once I return from vacation, I'll go through the PRs and review them
> (and also commit the missing
> patch to github). I'll welcome anybody to contribute to make Vim better.
>

Yes. I will continue to contribute to Vim. Let me know how I can help.

Regards,
Yegappan

>
> I still don't know all the internals of the various areas (vim9, virtual
> text, syntax highlighting to name
> a few) and I don't know how much time I can dedicate, but I hope
> together we will be able to continue
> successfully.
>

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