Re: Bram has been awarded by the Free Software Foundation Europe

[Tony Mechelynck]

On Fri, Nov 8, 2024 at 1:20 PM 'Christian Brabandt' via vim_announce
<vim_an...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
>
> Dear Vim users,
>
> I'd like to inform you that Bram has received the European SFS Award from the Free Software Europe posthumously.
>
> Please find all the details here:
> https://fsfe.org/news/2024/news-20241108-01.en.html
>
> Thanks and Happy Vimming,
> Chris

Thanks, I just mentioned it on the English Wikipedia :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_Moolenaar .
I suppose others of you may add it (if it isn't yet done) to the
corresponding articles in other languages.

Happy Vimming,
Tony.

[Francis Grizzly Smit]

that is so cool as a coder who uses vim everyday I have always appreciated Bram

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[David Morano]

Great congratulations for Bram, that he received this honor -- if even posthumously.

Bram certainly deserved this, and probably should have been honored as such many years (decades) ago!

Vim was a huge accomplishment and excellent follow-on to the old (and dearly loved) VI editor from time immemorial (about 1977).

As an older VI user (user from 1982) I certainly appreciated that there was an upgrade path (modernization) of the old VI editor.

A little embarrassed to still say this, but I pretty much *live* on Vim every ... single ... day (still).

Congratulations to Bram again.

[BPJ]

> A little embarrassed to still say this, but I pretty much *live* on Vim every ... single ... day (still).

Ego quoque!

Bram should have got this award much earlier. I guess we should be happy that he did get it eventually.

[Matt Ackeret]

> On Nov 8, 2024, at 9:31 PM, 'David Morano' via vim_use <vim...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> A little embarrassed to still say this, but I pretty much *live* on Vim every ... single ... day (still).

I'm writing this in Mail, but I run alpine side by side, and use vim as my message editor there...
and edit source code/scripts with vim too.