gg

gg

A CLI for your Gists. It syncs your gists locally, making them searchable and quickly accessible.

Installation

Download the latest release for your system.

# Move the binary to a location on your $PATH and rename to gg
mv gg_linux /usr/local/bin/gg
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/gg_linux
# gg should now work
gg

Features

• Syntax highlighting in terminal
• Create, edit, and delete gists from the command line
• Edit gists in a text editor (e.g. sublime)
• Organize gists using tags (#hashtag syntax)
• Full text search
• Filter and sort by tag, language, owner, public/private, starred, search term
• gg includes starred gists by other users
• Summarize gists by tag, language, or owner

Usage

Getting Started

1. Create a new authentication token. Under permissions select 'gist'
2. Run gg sync --token <authentication_token>.

Query Gists

gg ls can be used to search and filter your gist library. Results are output in a table. For convenience, the ls command is run implicitly when gg is invoked as long as the term being passed is not also a command.

For example:

gg # Lists recent gists
gg ls # equivelent to above

gg genomics # Searches gists for the term 'genomics'
gg ls genomics # equivelent to above

gg -l 100 # lists last 100 gists.
gg ls -l 100 # lists the last 100 gists

gg help # shows help
gg sync # syncs gists

The gg command list is:

• # - any integer number.
• help, h, --help, -h
• sync
• set-editor
• logout
• new
• edit
• web, w
• open, o
• rm
• ls, list
• search
• starred
• tag, tags
• language, languages
• owner
• __run_alfred, debug

You can still search on these terms by using ls explicitly:

gg sync # runs the sync command
gg ls sync # searches for the term 'sync'

Retrieve Gists

gg open 5 # Outputs a single gist
gg o 5 # 'o' is a shortcut for open.

# To be even quicker, gg will open a gist when the first argument is an integer.
gg 5 # equivelent to `gg o 5` or `gg open 5`

# Output multiple gists
gg 5 8 22

# You can pipe the contents to be evaluated; They will not be syntax-highlighted
gg 5 | sh

Summarize gists

Gists can be summarized by tag, owner, and language.

gg tags # Summarize by tag
gg tags fastq # Query gists tagged with 'fastq'
gg tags fastq elegans # Query gists tagged with 'fastq' and containing the word 'elegans'
gg owner # List owners and count
gg language # Table languages and count

Creating new gists

Files

The following will create a new gist that includes both analysis.R and setup.sh

gg new --description "analysis scripts" analysis.R setup.sh 

stdin

You can also pipe input into gg to create a new gist, and set gists to --private

cat analysis_results.tsv | gg new --description "experiment results" --private

Clipboard

You can create a new gist from your clipboard

gg new --clipboard --description "A new gist" --filename "analysis.sh"

Edit Gists

Use gg edit to edit gists.

gg edit 12 # Open gist in text file for editing.

Editing a gist opens a text document with the following header:

# GIST FORM: Edit Metadata below
# ==============================
# description: tmux shortcuts & cheatsheet
# starred: T
# public: T
# ==============================

You can modify the description, starred (T=true; F=false), and public (T=true; F=false) in this header.

Following the header you will see a special separator line that looks like this:

myscript.sh----------------------------------------------------------------------------::>>>

Because gists can have multiple files, they are represented in a single file by breaking them up using a specialized line. The line must begin with the filename, followed by dashes ---, and finally end with ::>>>. A gist with two files looks like this:

# GIST FORM: Edit Metadata below
# ==============================
# description: analysis.R
# starred: T
# public: T
# ==============================
README.md-----------------------------------------------------------------------------::>>>
I used R to analyze my data!

Check out analysis.R to see how I did it.
analysis.R----------------------------------------------------------------------------::>>>
# My R script
print(1 + 1)

Supported editors:

• Sublime Text (subl)
• Nano

Remove Gists

Use gg rm to delete gists.

gg rm 12
gg rm 12 134 47 # Remove multiple gists

Contributing

Feel free to open a PR or suggest changes! Relatively new to Go, so technique suggestions are especially welcome.