Vim's Creator Bram Moolenaar Dies at Age 62 – Slashdot

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Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37011324

It’s not really a dupe if it’s worth reading separate accounts of Brams impact. And I would say it is.

As StackedExchange would say, this should be a comment. And indeed, there are so many separate touching accounts in that other thread...

If we're going to have dupes this would seem like a fine time to have them.

.... we're not. What a blatant false premise.

Well, FWIW, I didn't click on the other link because I didn't recognize the name. I clicked on this one because it mentioned vim.

I'm not saying the two shouldn't be merged, and agree a page of essentially the same news duplicated serves little purpose, just that the two titles and the things which they're linking to were functionally different.

You can comment on that other story, as I and many others have done already.

Otherwise we could have many stories about Bram on the frontpage. Like many, I am sad about this news, and it's nice to see that Bram's exceptional contributions are being recognized and celebrated, but it also doesn't need to completely take over the HN frontpage.

(Also, this specific story doesn't even have that much additional information: it just repeats the mailing list message with a bit more details like his age.)

Except it’s a /. thread too. And /. is pretty appropriate for vim.

Just going to have to hard disagree with flagging stuff like this a dupe today. I’m not interested in the economy of categories in this instance at all.

Comments moved thither. Thanks.

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