gh gist edit: use prefix matching for gist id #7000

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4. kousikmitra commented on May 6, 2023

   

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   @vilmibI can we use something similar to existing gh gist view which shows a picker to pick from a list in case no gist id provided?
5. vilmibm commented on May 16, 2023

   

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   can we use something similar to existing gh gist view which shows a picker to pick from a list in case no gist id provided?

   I'm in favor of gh gist edit matching gh gist view in that regard, yeah.
6. dardo82 commented on May 30, 2023

   

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   Could we do the same thing matching the description?
7. kousikmitra commented on May 31, 2023

   

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   can we use something similar to existing gh gist view which shows a picker to pick from a list in case no gist id provided?

   I'm in favor of gh gist edit matching gh gist view in that regard, yeah.

   Great, I will raise a PR once I get sometime to work on this.
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   gh-gistrelating to the gh gist commandrelating to the gh gist command

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9. 0xdevalias commented on Sep 15, 2025

   

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   This might be useful as a semi-partial workaround (or inspiration towards one) in the meantime:

   This workaround command using fzf from another tangentially related thread is actually quite useful here:

   workaround:

   alias gist='gh gist edit $(gh gist list | fzf --reverse | awk "{print \$1}")'

   Originally posted by @hholst80 in #2471 (comment)

   And because it uses gh gist list, it means we could also pass in extra args like --limit, --filter, --public, --secret, etc. eg:

   gist-edit() {
     local search="$1"
     gh gist edit "$(
       gh gist list --filter "$search" --limit 100 |
       fzf --reverse |
       awk '{print $1}'
     )"
   }

   Though maybe the 'official' implementation could include caching / local filtering / similar maybe, so we're not having to hit the API with a high --limit all the time?

   Originally posted by @0xdevalias in #11738