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Gist Autosave bookmark (Chrome only?)
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gist_autosave.js
javascript:(function(){
setInterval(function(){
console.log("Auto Saving...");
var data = $("#gist-form").serialize();
var actionUrl = $("#gist-form").attr('action');
try {
$.post(actionUrl, data); }
catch(err) {}
$("<p class='cjs-autosave'>Autosaved gist!</p>").insertAfter("div.main #gists");
$("p.cjs-autosave").fadeOut(4000);
}, 10000);
}())
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While on a Gist /edit page on github.com, you can click on a bookmark containing this code to have it auto save the gist every 10 seconds. Modify to your needs.

Useful for google doc autosave-esque functionality.

@ThomasMorrison
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This actually works great as a greasemonkey script as well!

@benchonaut
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Firefox declined to do it via debug console , gets NULL at line 4 or 5 ,

so i did it from shell
https://gist.github.com/benchonaut/605235721ba775ddd3df371fb287afe3

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