Error on initialization

[konklone]

Maybe it's cause I'm on Ubuntu, not sure how this stuff operates on OS X:

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/usr/local/lib/node_modules/gistup/bin/gistup:63
      if (error) throw error;
                       ^
Error: Command failed: Couldn't get a file descriptor referring to the console

at ChildProcess.exithandler (child_process.js:637:15)
    at ChildProcess.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:98:17)
    at maybeClose (child_process.js:735:16)
    at Socket.<anonymous> (child_process.js:948:11)
    at Socket.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:95:17)
    at Pipe.close (net.js:466:12)

One workaround would be to allow an auth token to be given over the command line, as an option.

[mbostock]

Yeah. That error means it wasn’t able to open your web browser using the open command. For example, on Mac OS X, you can say:

open 'http://example.com'

And it will open that URL in your web browser of choice. What’s the equivalent in Ubuntu?

A simple workaround is to create your ~/.gistup.json file manually. It should look like this:

{
  "token": "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
}

Where XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX is your access token.

[mbostock]

Added a simple fallback in 0.0.4. Thanks for the report!

[konklone]

Oh, nice!

Also, I poked around, looks like on Ubuntu it's xdg-open. Annoyingly though, open is available at /bin/open but it doesn't work. open will return a non-0 response code though, so you could do:

open [url] || xdg-open [url]

And that should execute xdg-open only if open fails. It will still print out the "Couldn't get a file descriptor referring to the console" error, though.

[smnorris]

I get this on OSX 10.9:

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/usr/local/lib/node_modules/gistup/lib/gistup/get-settings.js:38
        child.exec(open + " 'https://github.com/settings/tokens/new'", functio
                   ^
ReferenceError: open is not defined
    at ReadStream.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/gistup/lib/gistup/get-settings.js:38:20)
    at ReadStream.g (events.js:180:16)
    at ReadStream.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:95:17)
    at ReadStream.<anonymous> (_stream_readable.js:746:14)
    at ReadStream.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:92:17)
    at emitReadable_ (_stream_readable.js:408:10)
    at emitReadable (_stream_readable.js:404:5)
    at readableAddChunk (_stream_readable.js:165:9)
    at ReadStream.Readable.push (_stream_readable.js:127:10)
    at TTY.onread (net.js:528:21)

Odd, as open works fine from command line.

$ which open
/usr/bin/open

[mbostock]

Sorry, I must have just broken this. Looking.

[mbostock]

Fixed in 0.1.1.

[smnorris]

Thanks!
Once I had ~/.gistup.json and my SSH keys generated, gistup opened the browser with no problems.

[mbostock]

Yep the bug was only on initialization.