Here's a great video that bryanl made showing off gist and what makes it interesting:

http://www.vimeo.com/1381658

I'm kind of impressed it only took about 12 hours for that to happen.

Neat, except it doesn't always use the correct syntax highlighting. It seems like it uses filename extensions to determine the language, which can be ambiguous if two different languages use the same extension (I tried saving as Objective-C but it shows it as Matlab. Both use the .m extension)

It'll try to guess the highlighting if you name the file with an extension, otherwise you can select the correct highlighting via the dropdown for the situation you're describing.

I didn't name my paste, I selected the language from the menu:

https://gist.github.com/198/bac462c7c01cedb22624147def12c65b...

The weird thing is it seems to use the correct highlighting in the "All Gists" listing.

just pushed a fix for this - thanks for pointing it out. it should be live with the next update.

this thing is awesome... i was just hoping someone would build this exact app ... how many times have I had to paste back and forth between pastie and my editor when collaborating on something!

Great job github guys.

I like clean and sparse web pages, but this is going too far. How about a "what is this" or "tell me more" link?

Way cool. Of course, I couldn't resist the temptation to try it out, so I just contributed to polluting it by creating an anonymous "hello, world" paste. Apologies to github. :)

I'll definitely use it for real in the future.

Makes me feel better that I wasn't the only person to do the exact same thing.

I'm sure a ton of people did. I wonder who is going to be the first person to use Gist as the source control for their app. It seems like it does enough that it could work, minus access control I guess.

No real point, other than a publicity stunt, but would be amusing.

Seems like an idea worth pursuing. I write silly mini-games when I'm bored--this would be perfect for that. Publicity stunt: I like that!

It would be nice if we could add tags to gists so we could add some meaning to the code. Plus it would make it easier to search and find related gists.