| Felix Stalder via nettime-l on Tue, 8 Aug 2023 09:50:14 +0200 (CEST) |
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| Re: <nettime> RIP Bram Moolenaar |
On 8/7/23 16:25, Ted Byfield via nettime-l wrote:
For many years, nettime ran on bespoke hacks of Mailman that allowed mods to use the text editor vim to clean up messy formatting, hack away at the endless quoted text that accumulated, compile digests from threads, maintain procmail and spam filters, and more. In different and non-obvious ways, all that tweaking was essential to the list's...I dunno, style? aesthetic? vibe? It's interesting to think about what word would express (not "capture," ugh) whatever all that was. In any event, I think it's fair to say the list probably wouldn't still exist if it weren't for vim.
Yes, indeed. And it's hard to think of vim without thinking of the late Sven Guckes, one of it's most skillful users and educators. He showed us how to use vim to actually create the digests for nettime. The pipeline was mailman, vim, mutt, mailman. I think I still have some muscle memory of the short-cut sequence. Command-line pleasures.
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