Hacker News Reader

Hacker News

Comment by codetrotter | Hacker News Reader

Full thread

codetrotter

Bram Moolenaar was the original author, maintainer, release manager, and benevolent dictator for life of Vim.

@dang can HN put a black banner for Bram Moolenaar please?

View on HN

This is the only vi-able action IMO.

Perhaps Dan is more of an Emacs guy.

The only problem is, some users will then be unable to exit, stuck in macro recording mode for eternity.

Just as Bram would want :)

How do I exit this thread?

Thank you Sir Moolenaar for this journey.

>@dang

The email address I've used in the past has been responded to promptly, that's probably more effective than an @ mention:

  hn@ycombinator.com

@-mentions don't do anything. Email is the only reliable way to contact dang.

It depends... some users have their own custom notification systems. Many business control their PR here strictly.

But in general.. yes.

I'd be surprised if any of these pick up on "@name" specifically, rather than just "name".

This feels monumental… can we get the black bar for the entire weekend.

This is the passing of someone that has fundamentally touched the lives of so many programmers… his work is now part of our very folklore, we make vim jokes, we emulate it in other tools, even the “enemy” (eMacs) eventually added evil mode (mind my humour it has sharp edges)… vim is mentioned in science fiction and has survived the journey from Unix to a plethora of other operating systems…

He will be missed.

Same. Variations of Vim have been my go to editor for many decades now. Stellar achievement.

I support this request. :x

It seems unthinkable that Dang will not bestow this honor upon him. Given that it's currently early Saturday morning, we just have to wait.

I think you mean ^A

Another black bar +1. If anyone deserves it, it’s got to be the author of a critical part of my daily workflow for over 10 years.

Definitely deserves a black bar.

VIM is definitely is one of those thin tiles that keep Open Source together

:wq and RIP

:! !!

A vote.

This absolutely deserves a black bar.<ESC>:wq

Do people really not know :x == :wq ???

TIL

They're not equivalent.

:w will touch the file (update mtime) whether you've made changes or not

:x will only update mtime if the file contents are actually changed

They are similar, but I stick to :wq. I fear mixing up :x with :X. Would probably catch the mistake when being asked to type the encryption key, but anyway

> Would probably catch the mistake when being asked to type the encryption key, but anyway

Can confirm. I have accidentally typed :X many times, but have never accidentally encrypted a file

Black bar please! :wq

I think you mean:

  iPlease![ESC]Vx1000000p

I'm sure you meant

    1000000iPlease!<Esc>

I did, but that took a lot longer to process on my computer for some reason.

Not to sound bitter, but should we assume that dang does not consider the creator of vim to be worthy of a black banner? I keep forgetting that this site, despite having hacker in its name, is not really about hacking. Anyways, I hope Bram Moolenaar finds peace.

Or we could assume that dang is not awake 24/7, and does not have a neural interface to everything that happens on HN and in the world, and actually does other things with his life than moderate HN.

In short: he's such a lazy git with zero work ethnic.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com