I believe it was that way before, and now isn't for some reason. I recall not having this behavior a year ago. I started reading the ticket about i quickly lost the thread of why :-/ new topic. is the functionality to create a gist that comes with the github layer working for you? (anyone reading) should be > SPC g g b to create a Gist from the current buffer. (it's not for me in case that isn't obvious).