mattn/vim-gist

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1690 stars · 130 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A Vim plugin (vimscript) for creating, editing, listing, forking, starring, and deleting GitHub Gists directly from the editor. It supports posting buffers or selections, anonymous and private gists, and browsing gist listings with keyboard mappings.

Use cases

• post current buffer or selection to github gist from vim
• create private or anonymous gists without leaving the editor
• edit and update an existing gist with :w
• list my gists or another user's gists in vim
• fetch a gist by id into a vim buffer
• fork or star a gist from vim
• copy a gist's contents to the clipboard

When to choose

• you use Vim and frequently share code snippets as GitHub Gists
• you want to create, edit, and manage gists without switching to a browser
• you want to pull gists into buffers for quick editing or copying

When to avoid

• you use a different editor like VS Code or Neovim with Lua-based tooling
• you need a general-purpose GitHub client beyond gists
• you cannot install curl, which the plugin requires

Facets

plugin · maturity active

developer-tools editor developer-tools text-editors apis cross-platform cli vim gist github vim-plugin code-snippets editor-plugin

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