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GIST

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'gist' is a command line interface for working with github gists. It provides

several methods for inspecting a users gists, and the ability to easily create

them.



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Requirements

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Python 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, or 3.9 is required.



Installation

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The preferred way to install 'gist' is from pypi.org using pip (or pip3),



::



  $ pip install python-gist



Alternatively, you can clone the repository and install it manually,



::



  $ pip install .



The 'share' directory contains a set of shell scripts that provide tab

completion and fuzzy search for gist. There are 3 different scripts for

tab-completion in bash: gist.bash, gist-fzf.bash, and gist-fzsl.bash. The first

provides simple tab completion and can be enable by adding the following to

your .bashrc file,



::



  source /usr/local/share/gist/gist.bash



The other scripts, gist-fzf.bash and fist-fzsl.bash, provide fuzzy matching of

gists using an ncurses interface (NB: these scripts require

`fzf `_ and `fzsl `_,

respectively).



The gist.fish script provides tab completion for the fish shell, and should be

copied to ~/.config/fish/completions.



The gist.zsh script provides tab completion for the zsh shell, and should be

copied to ~/.zsh as _gist. If not already in your ~/.zshrc file, you should add



::



  fpath=(${HOME}/.zsh $fpath)



To check that 'gist' is operating correctly, you can run the unit tests with,



::



  $ make test



Note that running the unit tests requires `poetry `_

to be available on your PATH.



Getting started

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'gist' requires a personal access token for authentication. To create a token,

go to https://github.com/settings/tokens. The token needs to then be added

to a 'gist' configuration file that should have the form,



::



  [gist]

  token: 

  editor: 



The editor field is optional. If the default editor is specified through some

other mechanism 'gist' will try to infer it. Otherwise, you can use the config

file to ensure that 'gist' uses the editor you want it to use.



If the token string begins with ``!`` the text following is interpreted as a

shell command which, when executed, prints the token to stdout. For example::



  [gist]

  token: !gpg --decrypt github-token.gpg



The configuration file must be in one of the following,



::



  ${XDG_DATA_HOME}/gist

  ${HOME}/.config/gist

  ${HOME}/.gist



If more than one of these files exist, this is also the order of preference,

i.e. a configuration that is found in the ``${XDG_DATA_HOME}`` directory will be

taken in preference to ``${HOME}/.config/gist``.



Also, 'gist' assumes that you have set up your github account to use SSH keys so

that you can access your repositories without needing to provide a password.

Here__ is a link on setting up SSH keys with github.



__ https://help.github.com/articles/connecting-to-github-with-ssh/



Usage

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'gist' is intended to make it easy to manage and use github gists from the

command line. There are several commands available:



::



  gist create      - creates a new gist

  gist edit        - edit the files in your gist

  gist description - updates the description of your gist

  gist list        - prints a list of your gists

  gist clone       - clones a gist

  gist delete      - deletes a gist or list of gists from github

  gist files       - prints a list of the files in a gist

  gist archive     - downloads a gist and creates a tarball

  gist content     - prints the content of the gist to stdout

  gist info        - prints detailed information about a gist

  gist version     - prints the current version

  gist help        - prints the help documentation



**gist create**



Most of the 'gist' commands are pretty simple and limited in what they can do.

'gist create' is a little different and offers more flexibility in how the user

can create the gist.



If you have a set of existing files that you want to turn into a gist,



::



  $ gist create "divide et impera" foo.txt bar.txt



where the quoted string is the description of the gist. Or, you may find it

useful to create a gist from content on your clipboard (say, using xclip),



::



  $ xclip -o | gist create "ipsa scientia potestas est"



Another option is to pipe the input into 'gist create' and have it automatically

put the content on github,



::



  $ echo $(cat) | gist create "credo quia absurdum est"



Finally, you can just call,



::



  $ gist create "a posse ad esse"



which will launch your default editor (defined by the EDITOR environment

variable).



In addition to creating gists using the above methods, it is also possible to

encrypt a gist if you have gnupg installed. Any of the above methods can be used

to create encrypted gists by simply adding the --encrypt flag to invocation.

For example,



::



  $ gist create "arcana imperii" --encrypt



will open the editor allowing you to create the content of the gist, which is

then encrypted and added to github. See the Configuration section for

information on how to enable gnupg support.



**gist edit**



You can edit your gists directly with the 'edit' command. This command will

clone the gist to a temporary directory and open up the default editor (defined

by the EDITOR environment variable) to edit the files in the gist. When the

editor is exited the user is prompted to commit the changes, which are then

pushed back to the remote.



**gist description**



You can update the description of your gist with the 'description' command.

You need to supply the gist ID and the new description. For example -



::



  $ gist description e1f5e95a1705cbfde144 "This is a new description"



**gist list**



Returns a list of your gists. The gists are returned as,



::



  2b1823252e8433ef8682 - mathematical divagations

  a485ee9ddf6828d697be - notes on defenestration

  589071c7a02b1823252e + abecedarian pericombobulations



The first column is the gists unique identifier; The second column indicates

whether the gist is public ('+') or private ('-'); The third column is the

description in the gist, which may be empty.



**gist clone**



Clones a gist to the current directory. This command will clone any gist based

on its unique identifier (i.e. not just the users) to the current directory.



**gist delete**



Deletes the specified gists from github.



**gist files**



Returns a list of the files in the specified gist.



**gist archive**



Downloads the specified gist to a temporary directory and adds it to a tarball,

which is then moved to the current directory.



**gist content**



Writes the content of each file in the specified gist to the terminal, e.g.



::



  $ gist content c971fca7997aed65ddc9

  foo.txt:

  this is foo



  bar.txt:

  this is bar



For each file in the gist the first line is the name of the file followed by a

colon, and then the content of that file is written to the terminal.



If a filename is given, only the content of the specified filename will be

printed.



::



  $ gist content de42344a4ecb6250d6cea00d9da6d83a file1

  content of file 1



If the contents of the gist is encrypted, it can be viewed in its decrypted

form by adding the --decrypt flag, e.g.



::



  $ gist content --decrypt 8fe557fb3771aa74edfd

  foo.txt.asc (decrypted):

  this is a secret



See the Configuration section for information on how to enable gnupg support.



**gist info**



This command provides a complete dump of the information about the gist as a

JSON object. It is mostly useful for debugging.



**gist version**



Simply prints the current version.



**gist help**



Prints out the help documentation.



Configuration

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There are several parameters that can be added to a configuration file to

determine the behavior of gist. The configuration file itself is expected to

be one of the following paths,



::



  ${HOME}/.gist

  ${HOME}/.config/gist

  ${XDG_DATA_HOME}/gist



The configuration file follows the .ini style. The following is an example,



::



  [gist]

  token: dde7b84d1e0edf7454ab354934b6ab36b01bf00f

  editor: /usr/bin/vim

  gnupg-homedir: /home/user/.gnupg

  gnupg-fingerprint: 179F9650D9FC1BFE391620B4B13A7829D8DE8623

  delete-tempfiles: False



The only essential field in the configuration file is the token. This is the

authentication token from github that grants gist permission to access your

gists. The editor is the editor to use if the EDITOR environment is not set or

you wish to use a different editor. 'gnupg-homedir' is the directory where your

gnupg data are stored, and 'gnupg-fingerprint' is the fingerprint of the key to

use to encrypt data in your gists. Both gnupg fields are required to support

encryption/decryption.



The 'delete-tempfiles' option is used when gists are created from an editor.

The editor writes its contents to a temporary file, which is deleted by

default. The default behavior can be overridden by using the 'delete-tempfiles'

flag.



Contributors

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Thank you to the following people for contributing to 'gist'!



* Eren Inan Canpolat (https://github.com/canpolat)

* Kaan Genç (https://github.com/SeriousBug)

* Eric James Michael Ritz (https://github.com/ejmr)

* Karan Parikh (https://github.com/karanparikh)

* Konstantin Krastev (https://github.com/grizmin)

* Brandon Davidson (https://github.com/brandond)

* jq170727 (https://github.com/jq170727)

* jsbronder (https://github.com/jsbronder)

* hugsy (https://github.com/hugsy)

* Kenneth Benzie (https://github.com/kbenzie)

* rtfmoz2 (https://github.com/rtfmoz2)