Bram MoolenaarInterview
Developer (Vim)
Adapted from Bram Moolenaar's interview on Uses This, published 28 January 2020. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
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My main system is an MSI motherboard with an AMD Ryzen 2700X processor and 32 Gbyte RAM.
The graphics card is a GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, the fastest that can use passive cooling.
And I have a Dell XPS 13 laptop for when I'm travelling.
For work I also have a MacBook Pro.
I would go back to the MacBook Air if I could.
Communication
I have multiple tabs open to quickly switch between applications, such as Gmail and Calendar (mainly for work), Vim build status dashboards and any document I'm working on.
Productivity
Currently I'm leading the development of Google Calendar for the web.
Browser
Chrome for browser, since it's very stable.
Although I sometimes start Firefox if something fails.
Coding & Development
I'm known for being the creator and maintainer of Vim, the text editor.
I started doing this on the Amiga in 1988, which only had a buggy and limited version of Vi, the editor I was familiar with.
Other
I also have a Windows 7 system to run stuff that only runs on Windows.
My main system is running Ubuntu.
For desktop I keep going back to GNOME.