Using Gister Notebook

Using_Gister.ipynb

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      "Using Gister "
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      "Gister (https://github.com/weakish/gister) is a command lien program that allows you to quickly publish files to github gist. It will automatically add any added file to a pre-defined 'gister' folder, and index the contents so that's its searchable from the command line. \n",
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      "This all sounds very nice and useful to me so I'm giving gister a go."
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      "It didn't work out of the box for me however, but after a fair bit of faffing I seem to have got it to work. \n",
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      "I was having the problem that it wasn't saving the '.csearchindex' in the folder properly. \n",
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      "Here's the solution I came up with:"
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      "1. Need to create a blank '.csearchindex' file in the gister folder\n",
      "2. Need to create a bash environment variable 'CSEARCHINDEX' that points to that file. "
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