Sven Guckes passed away

[Bram Moolenaar]

Forwarding this text from Antonio Colombo:

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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!

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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

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[Christian Brabandt]

Oh no, very sad news :(

I have never met him in person, but I remember his presence on various
software projects and I was enjoyed reading his messages and learned
very much from him.

I have been through this last year with a very close relative, so I know
the feelings and therefore wish the best for his family and friends in
this dark times.

What a sad day.

Best,
Christian
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[Ruben Safir]

On 2/21/22 10:34, Christian Brabandt wrote:
>
> On Mo, 21 Feb 2022, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
>
>>
>> Forwarding this text from Antonio Colombo:

I am very very sorry to hear this news and my condolences to you and his
family.

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[Salman Halim]

Very sad. 

I remember how he would always be very helpful and extremely knowledgeable, but didn't suffer fools gladly, back in the late 90's and early 00's. I would see his name on the email and knew I would learn something and possibly also be entertained at the same time. :)

Taken too soon. Again, very sad. 

Salman

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[Stan Brown]

That's sad news.

I remember a number of interactions with Sven, in email and in various
newsgroups, and he was always courteous, and generous with his time.
He'll be missed.

Bram, I like your idea to dedicate release 9 to his memory.

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[Charles Campbell]

So sorry to hear of Sven's passing. He was always very informative and
helpful.
Chip Campbell

[Philip Rhoades]

Stan,

On 2022-02-22 05:47, Stan Brown wrote:
> That's sad news.
>
> I remember a number of interactions with Sven, in email and in various
> newsgroups, and he was always courteous, and generous with his time.
> He'll be missed.
>
> Bram, I like your idea to dedicate release 9 to his memory.

+1

Phil.

> --

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[Steve Martin]

Never met Sven, but I have appreciated his work in VIM for some time. I was very sad to see this news. Thoughts and prayers to Sven, his friends, and family.

[Marc Chantreux]

> Our friend Sven Guckes died in Berlin on February 20, 2022.

So I will never meet the guy in person :(.

I remember me in the '90s reading all the emails from Sven just
because the expertise of the awsers he gave was excellent but
most importantly: the quality of the answers demonstrated his anger
to share his knowledge. Those kind of person who showed us what a
community should be.

:s/ve/n, Requiescat in pace.

marc

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http://annuaire.unistra.fr/p/20200

[Marc Chantreux]

> I remember how he would always be very helpful and extremely knowledgeable,
> but didn't suffer fools gladly, back in the late 90's and early 00's.

I don't remember him that way. He spent some time to elaborate answers.
From time to time, when the reader just kept asking for a solution
instead of a knowledge, he had some ... pushy answers, for sure but i
felt it was more against an attitude than a person.

[Salman Halim]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2022, 05:41 Marc Chantreux <m...@unistra.fr> wrote:

> I remember how he would always be very helpful and extremely knowledgeable,
> but didn't suffer fools gladly, back in the late 90's and early 00's.

I don't remember him that way. He spent some time to elaborate answers.
From time to time, when the reader just kept asking for a solution
instead of a knowledge, he had some ... pushy answers, for sure but i
felt it was more against an attitude than a person.

I wasn't trying to create an argument or point of contention. It wasn't my intention to offend anybody's memory of Sven.

Please consider my comment withdrawn. 

Salman

[Bram Moolenaar]

A very good article has been published by the Heise Verlag (probably the
best computer related publisher in the world):

https://www.heise.de/news/Vim-Versteher-und-Kommandozeilenerklaerer-Sven-Guckes-ist-tot-6511004.html

It is in German, auto-translation works OK.

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[Tim Johnson]

I miss him. He helped me get on board with vim and mutt.
Even tho' he was younger than I, he had more forehead.
Well, what the heck, you can't have hair and brains both
and boy did he ever have brains.

My condolences to his family and loved ones and also to
all those whose life he made better.

Tim
tj49.com