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Vim's Bram Moolenaar On Open Source And Vim 6.0

Posted by chrisd on from the vim-is-the-one-true-editor dept.

vimbigot writes "A nice summary of where Vim 6.0 has come from, with some insights into Bram Moolenaar's thoughts on Open Source, Charityware and large cooperative software projects. (a bit of irony in the `powered by emacs logo at the bottom !')"

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  1. I, too, am curious by dimator · · Score: 5, Funny

    You call vim this horrid piece of software but earlier you said It took me several years to actually learn to use Vi(m).

    A) Do you always spend "years" learning software you don't like?

    B) Does your "learning" curve always hit a brick wall at the very first few commands that anyone else acquires in minutes?

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    python -c "x='python -c %sx=%s; print x%%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))%s'; print x%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))"
  2. Wow by dimator · · Score: 5, Funny

    Bram Moolenaar studied electrical engineering at the Technical University of Delft and graduated in 1985 on a multi-processor Unix architecture.

    Could the school not afford a proper stage for the ceremony?

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    python -c "x='python -c %sx=%s; print x%%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))%s'; print x%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))"