On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 11:57 AM, Smylers <[email protected]> wrote:
> How to add my script was baffling. The blog posts mention that only the > built-in editor is available now, not editing files directly on the > file-system. So I spent quite some time looking for how to open the > built-in editor, or a ‘new user script’ menu entry or similar. > The "new script" feature is one of the many things that didn't make the cut for the first version, it will come. For now as a temporary dirty workaround: Just install (from the web) any script. Then edit it, replace the whole thing to become what you want it to be. > In the process of not finding that, I stumbled upon the ‘Get User Scripts’ > menu item. That took me to a page whose first entry says that GitHub's Gist > service can be used for hosting user scripts, so I pasted my script in > there and went to the raw URL. The raw script was displayed in the browser, > but it still wasn't clear what the process should be for getting it into > Greasemonkey — I tried dragging the URL icon onto the Greasemonkey icon, > and all sorts of things! > Oops! I'm working on updating the wiki today. You got hit by #2631, which you mention eventually finding. > But it was far from clear from either the ‘user’ or ‘script author’ blog > posts that that was what was required — probably cos I'm neither a user of > publicly posted scripts nor an author of one, so the whole ‘hosting’ side > was new to me. > Yeah, you're probably not a typical user. Firefox 57 was a hard deadline -- I wanted something that partially works rather than nothing at all. > Seeking help on what was going on led me to this mailing list, and further > down this thread somebody linked to a GitHub issue. Learning of the issues > list, a quick search revealed the following issue, which explains why Gist > no longer works for install: https://github.com/greasemonkey/greasemonkey/ > issues/2631 > > So I think the biggest problem is that the in-app ‘Get User Scripts’ link > goes to a page which recommends a service that no longer works. > I'll make sure to take that into account as I'm updating the documentation in the wiki, thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "greasemonkey-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/greasemonkey-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
