Gist Clip

Right-click any file → Create Gist → the URL is on your clipboard, ready to paste and send.

Create a GitHub gist from a file straight from the Explorer — no browser, no tokens to manage. Gist Clip shells out to your locally-authenticated gh CLI, so it uses the GitHub account you're already signed into. Gists are secret (unlisted) by default.

Features

• One right-click — "Create Gist" on any file in the Explorer.
• URL straight to your clipboard — paste it wherever you need.
• No tokens to manage — uses your existing gh auth login.
• Secret by default — flip gistClip.public to share publicly.
• Multi-select → one combined gist.
• Never hangs — a hardened timeout, a Cancel button on the loader, and a single-flight lock so an in-progress run can never clobber the URL already on your clipboard.

Requirements

• GitHub CLI (gh) installed and authenticated:

  gh auth login

Usage

1. Right-click a file (or select several) in the Explorer.
2. Click Create Gist.
3. The gist URL is copied to your clipboard. The notification offers Open in Browser.

Multiple selected files become a single gist. Folders and empty files are skipped with a warning.

Settings

Setting	Default	Description
gistClip.public	false	Create public (listed) gists instead of secret ones.
gistClip.ghPath	""	Path to the gh binary. Empty = auto-detect (PATH, then Homebrew paths).
gistClip.timeoutMs	20000	Kill gh and report a timeout after this many ms. 0 disables (not advised).
gistClip.saveBeforeCreate	"warn"	Unsaved edits in selected files: save, warn, or ignore (gh reads disk).

How it works

• Runs gh gist create <files…> via child_process (no shell) and copies the resulting URL.
• The gh binary is auto-detected (PATH, then common Homebrew locations) and cached for speed; override with gistClip.ghPath.
• The spinner and the single-flight lock wrap only the create-and-copy step — result popups appear afterward, so dismissing or ignoring them never leaves the task stuck "busy".

Install

From the Marketplace (once published): search Gist Clip in the Extensions view.

From source:

git clone https://github.com/extedcouD/gist-clip.git
cd gist-clip
npm install
npm run compile
npx @vscode/vsce package            # → gist-clip-<version>.vsix
code --install-extension gist-clip-*.vsix

Development

npm install
npm run watch                       # incremental compile

Press F5 (with this folder open as the workspace root) to launch an Extension Development Host, or:

code --extensionDevelopmentPath=. .

Contributing

Issues and pull requests are welcome — see CONTRIBUTING.md.

License

MIT © extedcouD