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RIP Bram Moolenaar, the author of vim text editor
(groups.google.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Technically, that is not vim specific, conning from sed and ed, but definitely worked in vim as well as all vi clones
This is why it works so well. It's also one of the reasons I prefer vi over other text editors. It isn't always the most logical which commands and keys do what, but I like the consistency.