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. >> >> ================== >> >> 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! >> >> ================== >> >> >> 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 > > 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 -- So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998 http://www.mrbrklyn.com DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002 http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources - Unpublished Archive http://www.coinhangout.com - coins! http://www.brooklyn-living.com Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and and extermination camps, but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013 -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/259e0eaa-7f3e-fa9f-696b-29e5312d9c18%40my.liu.edu.