[saila]

Now that he's no longer with us, I don't think comments like this are necessary.

[quasarj]

Being dead has no impact on the truth, actually.

[gilcot]

And that’s not true! He did want to keep the editor stable and available for many platforms and compatible with vi. Rejected proposals break one of these rules.

[saila]

True, but the point could have been made in a more tactful way, and it didn't add anything useful to the discussion anyway.

[wvlia5]

I just learned that he passed from Wikipedia.

I remember he used to get a lot of flak on HN for not wanting to update vim, back in the days.

[cpncrunch]

Well, it works really well, most of us don't need any fancy new features, and we certainly don't want anything breaking.