GitHub Highlight Selected

Highlight selected word in GitHub source view like Sublime Text

GitHub Highlight Selected: Chrome Extension for GitHub

GitHub Highlight Selected is a Chrome extension specifically designed to enhance readability and navigation in GitHub source view. It works by emphasizing the word or phrase that a user selects, mimicking the highlight feature found in Sublime Text. With this tool, text analysis and code revisions become more manageable. See the code on GitHub: https://github.com/Nuclides/github-highlight-selected

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Extension stats

By: Xhacker Liu

Users: 1,000+

Rating: 4.47

(17)

Version: 2.3 (Last updated: 2019-10-09)

Creation date: 2019-10-08

Risk impact: Moderate risk impact

Risk likelihood:

Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

<all_urls>

Size: 159.74K

Ranking

# 25,190 ▲ 160

Other rankings

#7248 in Developer Tools ▼ 22 #128 in selection keyword 27 ▼ 15 #300 in github keyword 36 ▼ 62

Other platforms

GitHub (v1.189.0)

4.58

(110,485) 8,861,462+

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Extension summary

Analyze keywords

Highlight selected word in GitHub source view like in Sublime Text.

Check out the code on GitHub: https://github.com/Nuclides/github-highlight-selected

User reviews

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Pros

Super useful for reading code on GitHub
Works well for features not supported by GitHub
Love it, exactly what I was looking for
Very handy

Cons

Doesn't work anymore
Buggy in the latest versions of GitHub
Doubling of selected text in functionality

Most mentioned

Doesn't work anymore
Very handy
Love it

User reviews

Doesn't work anymore :( This extension is super useful and use to work really well. It made reading code in Github so much easier, especially with code where Github doesn't support "go to definition". But seems like it stopped working.