alexchexes

Managing Gists Locally

by Danny Quah, May 2020 (revised Jan 2022)

Through the Embed instruction or plugin, Gist snippets on GitHub can conveniently provide posts on Medium, WordPress, and elsewhere supplementary information (lines of code, images, Markdown-created tables, and so on). But while Gist snippets on GitHub can be managed directly via browser or through something like [Gisto][], a user might also wish to manipulate them offline. This last is for many of the same reasons that a user seeks to clone a git repo to their local filesystem, modify it locally, and then only subsequently push changes back up to GitHub.

Here's how to do this:

Create the gist on GitHub and then clone it to your local filesystem:

	// ==UserScript==
	// @name ChatGPT CSS fixes
	// @version 2024-12-27
	// @updateURL https://gist.github.com/alexchexes/d2ff0b9137aa3ac9de8b0448138125ce/raw/chatgpt_ui_fix.user.js
	// @downloadURL https://gist.github.com/alexchexes/d2ff0b9137aa3ac9de8b0448138125ce/raw/chatgpt_ui_fix.user.js
	// @namespace http://tampermonkey.net/
	// @description Adjusts width of side bar and messages of the ChatGPT web interface
	// @author alexchexes
	// @match https://chat.openai.com/*
	// @match https://chatgpt.com/*

	import sublime
	import sublime_plugin

	from os.path import isabs, isfile, normpath, realpath, dirname, join

	# Related reading:
	# https://forum.sublimetext.com/t/forbid-st-from-opening-non-project-files-in-the-projects-window/68989

	# The name of the window specific setting that determines if the functionality
	# of this plugin is enabled or not, and an indication of whether the plugin