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.
On Monday, February 21, 2022 at 9:20:21 PM UTC-7 Philip Rhoades wrote: > 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. > > > > -- > > 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 > >> > > > > -- > > -- > Philip Rhoades > > PO Box 896 > Cowra NSW 2794 > Australia > E-mail: ph...@pricom.com.au > -- -- 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/beb54078-95f7-4ed9-a973-fd72c27660abn%40googlegroups.com.
