Allow loading code from Gist URLs created elsewhere

[ChaiTRex]

The playground already uses Gists in the background when you want a permalink to the playground with code you've typed in already loaded. Can you please add to the playground UI a way to enter the URL of a Gist created elsewhere to load it into the playground?

As it is, I have to use the wasteful (of both time and unnecessarily created Gists) solution of:

0. Load the playground
1. Share whatever code is there
2. Go to the permanent playground link
3. Replace the Gist ID in the URL with my URL's Gist ID

I saw #439, but unlike that, this does not require much additional functionality, as the site can and does already load Gists just fine and would only need to parse the user-provided Gist to obtain the Gist ID.

[shepmaster]

It's unclear what exactly you need. If I understand correctly, the UI already exists: the browser's address bar and the gist query parameter:

https://gist.github.com/paulirish/292907
https://play.integer32.com/?gist=292907

[ChaiTRex]

The problem with using the browser's address bar as you suggest is that it's not that discoverable. To find out about it, you either have to be told or you have to click Share, open the permalink, look in the address bar, notice the parameters (and know how URLs work so that you even know what parameters are), already know that Gist is another site, and know that the random-looking string is a Gist ID rather than some ID specific to this site.

Then, you have to know that all the parameters other than gist are optional, which isn't apparent. I thought I had to have all the other parameters as in https://play.integer32.com/?version=stable&mode=debug&edition=2015&gist=292907, which is why I wanted the feature.

This discoverability would be greatly enhanced if loading from a Gist URL was part of the web page's UI, like in one of the menus at the top, not the somewhat arcane browser address bar.

[bevsxyz]

It would be cool if we could support Gitlab Snippets just like gists.

For example https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/2148039 this one's pretty similar to how a gist would be. And we could add snippet as a parameter in the URL for playground like this:

https://play.integer32.com/?snippet=2148039

It's good to have an alternative to gists!

[shepmaster]

It's good to have an alternative to gists

Why?

[bevsxyz]

Let's just say I prefer gitlab over GitHub. And I'm a bit concerned with all the GitHub copilot frenzy.