vim-afterimage
afterimage.vim: edit binary files by converting them to text equivalents (by tpope)
giferly
GIF 89a decoder written in Erlang (by avik-das)
| vim-afterimage | giferly | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 1 | |
| 161 | 2 | |
| - | - | |
| 10.0 | 10.0 | |
| over 4 years ago | over 5 years ago | |
| Vim Script | Erlang | |
| - | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
vim-afterimage
Posts with mentions or reviews of vim-afterimage.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-06.
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How Hackerman would create an image just by typing 0 and 1 – a deep dive to GIF
There's a cute plugin[0] for Vim which converts any image to XPM, which is a similar format that Vim has syntax-coloring for. You can edit the text, and then on save, it will get converted back to the original format. I've used it a few times to quickly preview an image or edit a favicon. It's more of party trick than seriously useful, though.
[0]https://github.com/tpope/vim-afterimage
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Good use cases for replace mode?
I suppose it would also work well with vim-afterimage :-)
giferly
Posts with mentions or reviews of giferly.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-06.
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How Hackerman would create an image just by typing 0 and 1 – a deep dive to GIF
I absolutely love the "What's In A GIF" series. It's what inspired me to write my own GIF decoder while learning Erlang at the same time: https://github.com/avik-das/giferly
The first time around, I struggled a lot with decoding errors. Many years later, after being a more experienced developer, I wrote the LZW decompression with unit tests. Doing so forced me to think about each edge case, and fix issues without breaking existing functionality. Very quickly, I was able to open pretty much any GIF file I threw at it!
What are some alternatives?
When comparing vim-afterimage and giferly you can also consider the following projects:
whats-in-a-gif - Guide to understanding the GIF file format