Knowra Bram Moolenaar Bram Moolenaar Bram Moolenaar was a Dutch computer programmer best known for creating Vim and maintaining it for decades. He also founded the charity ICCF Holland to support children in Uganda.
Vim : A highly configurable text editor developed by Bram Moolenaar as an extended version of vi. Moolenaar created and maintained this editor, the work for which he is best known.
Modal editing : An editing approach that assigns different commands to distinct modes, such as inserting text and navigating or changing it. Vim's command and insert modes embody the editing approach Moolenaar popularized.
Open-source software : Software whose source code is available under licenses that permit use, study, modification, and redistribution. Vim's public development and redistribution made Moolenaar's work part of the open-source ecosystem.
Atari ST : A line of personal computers released by Atari beginning in 1985. Moolenaar first developed Vim for this computer platform.
Bill Joy : An American computer scientist who co-founded Sun Microsystems and created the vi text editor. Joy's vi provided the direct foundation for Moolenaar's Vim.
Vi : A screen-oriented text editor created by Bill Joy for Unix systems. Vim extends the vi editor tradition that Moolenaar adopted and expanded.
Software maintenance : The work of correcting, adapting, and improving software after its initial release. Moolenaar's decades of Vim releases made long-term maintenance central to his career.
Stevie : A vi clone for the Atari ST written by Tony Andrews. Moolenaar began Vim by adapting this editor's source code.
Tony Andrews : A software developer who created Stevie, a vi clone for the Atari ST. Moolenaar used Andrews's Stevie as the starting point for Vim.
Vimscript : The scripting language built into Vim for configuration, automation, and editor extensions. Moolenaar's editor includes this language so users can customize and extend its behavior.
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