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I had an opportunity to talk to the Bram Moolenaar when VimConf 2018 was held in Japan. First and only time Bram visited Japan. I was there as a volunteer staf
by ezoe 3y ago
I had an opportunity to talk to the Bram Moolenaar when VimConf 2018 was held in Japan. First and only time Bram visited Japan.
I was there as a volunteer staff, sitting at a reception desk. Although vim is the text editor I use everyday, I'm not that enthusiastic to participate the vim conference. I'm not a vim developer. I don't use some of the advanced vim features. I don't ask much for a text editor. I use vim simply because it's available in all environments I could possibly use. I was a volunteer staff because I was asked by one of my colleague at that time who was a serious vim user and organized the VimConf.
So I didn't have a plan to talk to Bram at all. There were so many Japanese vim developers and serious vim users there who want to talk to Bram. This may be the first and last chance to talk to Bram in person for them. I don't want to waste the precious time for them.
Then, I learned at the conference that recent vim release includes termdebug plugin which allows vim to behave as a gdb frontend. Since I am a C++ programmer, I started playing with it. Then, I quickly found a bug. termdebug assume there's only one function for a name and couldn't handle C++ function overloading.
I discussed this issue with Bram Moolenaar in a spare time.
There aren't many other things I can tell about Bram.
At the after party of VimConf 2018, Bram absolutely refused to use a cup and drink beer directly from a beer bottle. It wasn't a small 333 ml beer bottle. It was a big 633 ml beer bottle.
Before the VimConf 2018, Bram went to climb Mt. Fuji during his stay in Japan.
- capableweb 3y agoHere is photos from Bram when they were at the Japan trip: https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipMc4NF8j66ohinWutVHktl4hHaw-c25JsFT1S-lSGcrb_oVfkY4MAgbEoWl2qC06A?key=Xzc0NW9STlhubTJrM2lyUVlQdDhHSW42N0tidG5n https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipMc4NF8j66ohinWutVHktl4... "Tokyo 2018 (Nov 17 – 25, 2018)" His website has a lot of other albums he published for everyone to enjoy: https://moolenaar.net/albums.html https://moolenaar.net/albums.html
- ezoe 3y agohttps://photos.app.goo.gl/BtVZMoZjdEmPKCeu9 https://photos.app.goo.gl/BtVZMoZjdEmPKCeu9 This photo remembers me a funny discussion at that time. One of the participants said he use vim to write .emacs file. "Why don't you use Emacs for that?" I asked. "Because if I have to edit .emacs, that means emacs isn't configured the way I liked it. So I use vim in that case"
- junon 3y agoWow these are really great photos - I'm sure both due to most culture in Japan is dripping in beauty, but also because Bram just takes really good photos! Thank you for sharing.
- cozzyd 3y agoThough while I'm on Bram's team in the editor wars, it seems like we chose different sides in the camera wars. RIP and thanks for the program I probably use the most. :x