A PowerShell ISE script to send selected text as a Github gist. This requires my New-GitHubGist function.

SendTo-Gist.ps1

#requires -version 4.0

#dot source the script with the New-GitHubGist function
. C:\scripts\New-GitHubGist.ps1

Function SendTo-Gist {
[cmdletbinding()]
Param(
[Parameter(Position = 0)]
[ValidateNotNullorEmpty()]
[string[]]$Text = $psise.CurrentFile.Editor.SelectedText,
[switch]$Private
)

#hashtable of parameters to splat to New-GitHubGist

$param = @{
 name = (Read-Host "Enter a file name for your gist")
 description = (Read-Host "Enter a description")
 Content = $Text
}

if ($private) {
    $param.Add("Private",$True)
}

New-GitHubGist @param

}

#add a menu shortcut
$psISE.CurrentPowerShellTab.AddOnsMenu.Submenus.add("Send to Gist",{SendTo-Gist -text $psise.CurrentFile.Editor.SelectedText },$null) | out-null
$psISE.CurrentPowerShellTab.AddOnsMenu.Submenus.add("Send to Private Gist",{SendTo-Gist -text $psise.CurrentFile.Editor.SelectedText -private},$null) | out-null