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.

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