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. -- Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com On 2022-02-21 05:48, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > > Forwarding this text from Antonio Colombo: > > ================== > > 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 > -- -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/5ac241bd-5a9a-6995-c003-9ba49b8bda91%40fastmail.fm.
