afterimage.vim: edit binary files by converting them to text equivalents
Edit ICO, PNG, and GIF icons. No really. They’re converted with
ImageMagick to XPM, a plain text image
format with beautiful syntax highlighting in GUI versions of Vim. Here,
it’s easier just to show you:

And yes, I did say edit. Obviously you’re not going to be uninstalling
Photoshop anytime soon, but for stupid simple tweaks, it gets the job
done.
Oh, and it can also handle PDFs (with
pdftk),
Word Documents (read-only, with Antiword),
and Mac OS X plist files.
If you don’t have a preferred installation method, I recommend
installing pathogen.vim, and
then simply copy and paste:
cd ~/.vim/bundle
git clone git://github.com/tpope/vim-afterimage.git
Once help tags have been generated, you can view the manual with
:help afterimage.
See the contribution guidelines for
pathogen.vim.
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Copyright © Tim Pope. Distributed under the same terms as Vim itself.
See :help license.
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