# Technical Notes

## Configuration

* Maxheight feature, where scrolling happens

## Copy Gists

Copy feature from raw. 

## Styling Gists

Custom themes 

{% hint style="danger" %}
These are experimental approaches.
{% endhint %}

Gists are embedded using a JS script which generates the formatted Gist content. It is not IFRAME'd which means it can be accessed directly via CSS.

However it is also undocumented styling.

<https://codersblock.com/blog/customizing-github-gists/>

Themes and styling;

<https://github.com/StylishThemes/GitHub-Dark/blob/master/src/themes/github/one-dark.css>

## Themes

<https://danielbernal.co/styling-gist-embeds-with-css/>

<https://stylishthemes.github.io/GitHub-Dark/>

<https://github.com/StylishThemes>

<https://github.com/StylishThemes/GitHub-Dark#available-syntax-highlighting-themes-demo>

## Raw Retrieve & Format

Raw retrieval;&#x20;

```
https://gist.github.com/raw/[ID]/[REVISION]/[FILE]
```

or

```
https://gist.githubusercontent.com/raw/[ID]/[REVISION]/[FILE]
```

`[ID]` is necessary\
`[REVISION]` can be omitted to get the latest revision\
`[FILE]` can be omitted to get the first file

<https://gist.github.com/atenni/5604615>

{% embed url="<https://gist.githubusercontent.com/memetican/ca27982d01fbe65127da7e22104fab71/raw>" %}

Or it can be retrieved via GitHub's Gist API.&#x20;

#### To get Gist Data;

<https://api.github.com/gists/8a6a3c508b7c71deb4070d3314900b1f>

{% embed url="<https://gist.github.com/atenni/5604615>" %}

<https://raw.githack.com/>

<https://docsify.js.org/#/embed-files?id=embed-a-gist>

<https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46073096/is-there-a-permalink-to-the-latest-version-of-gist-files>

<https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16589511/how-do-i-get-the-raw-version-of-a-gist-from-github>

####