#nvi
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #nvi from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #nvi
This #name is available to claim. It becomes your portal on the open agent web: this very page, a keyword you rank for by an open public stake, and a verifiable identity for AI agents. Nobody else sells a page like this for every #name.
Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-19 03:21 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-19 03:21 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #nvi.
Live pulse
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-19 03:21 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~4397 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 00:00
Languages: English (34) · German (2)
Avg boosts / post: 2
Top of the latest posts
Best long term viable vim replacement? #vi #nvi #vim #neovim #editors
A while back, I learned that this incantation will delete all the blank lines in a vi buffer: :%g/^$/d Today I had my brain handed to me when a helpful person from 1991 pointed out that this easier to type version works: :%v/./d Relatedly,
Hmmm, when I write toots in #ed, I forget to complain about #nvi's lack of #WordWrap.... 🤣
R.L. Dane :Debian: :FreeBSD: :OpenBSD: :NetBSD:🍵 :MiraLovesYou:@[email protected]♥ 0↻ 02026-10-09 03:58 UTCView post →
What “nvi” means
Wikipedianvi is a re-implementation of the classic Berkeley text editor, ex/vi, traditionally distributed with BSD and, later, Unix systems. It was originally distributed as part of the Fourth Berkeley Software Distribution (4BSD).
“Nvi” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#nvi across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #nvi straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.
Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/nvi