Slartboz, vim, Bram Moolenaar

I’ve already written my first reactions and main thoughts regarding the news of Bram Moolenaar this week. Which I did both here and elsewhere:

https://toot.io/@synlogic/110837573302297343

But another thought came up I wanted to share, perhaps because others might have had similar moments in their own daily lives and/or desktop computing workflows.

To wit:

This weekend I had been recording a screencast demo of my game Slartboz:

https://synystrongames.itch.io/slartboz/devlog/570983/slartboz-2nd-screencast-video-avail-lasers-monsters-mindless-obedience-accidental-deaths-grim-humor-cute-animals

It lasted about 7 minutes. By the end I might have been a little frazzled. 

Anyway, once I finished what I had to say and show to the world, I did the obvious thing which was to hit the keystroke sequences to end the recording. 

I bumbled it a bit. Either I typed it but it ignored me, or, I typed the wrong sequence because I misrembered in the heat of the moment, due to being frazzled by demo's end. 

Eventually I hit upon the magic sequence. 

But it would have been so much more natural if they had let it be: 

ESC:wq! 

RIP Mr. Moolenaar

thank you for your work, sir, and the wonderful tool you provided the world for so long 

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