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Defeats the purpose a bit, but its far easier to type out a PBM [0] file by hand and then just convert it to gif using e.g. imagemagick [0] https://en.wikipedi

• fwip 3y ago
  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 https://github.com/tpope/vim-afterimage
• yjftsjthsd-h 3y ago
  Not even just manually typing... Last time I wanted to have a program save a picture [0] it was easiest to write PPM and then convert that to a real format. Super inefficient file sizes, but good tradeoff for a hobby project. I can take some big intermediate files in exchange for not needing a graphics file format library:) [0] I was playing with the Linux framebuffer and wrote - among other things - a screenshot tool.