GitHub Highlight Selected
Highlight selected word in GitHub source view like Sublime Text
What is GitHub Highlight Selected?
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
Extension stats
By: Xhacker Liu
Users: 1,000+
Rating: 4.47
(17)
Creation date: 2019-10-08
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
- <all_urls>
Size: 159.74K
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Extension summary
Highlight selected word in GitHub source view like in Sublime Text.
Check out the code on GitHub: https://github.com/Nuclides/github-highlight-selected
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Pros
- Super useful for reading code on GitHub.
- Great for users accustomed to similar features in other editors like Atom.
- Very handy for daily coding tasks.
- Fabulous overall functionality.
Cons
- Currently doesn't work or stopped functioning.
- Bugs present in the latest versions of GitHub.
- Doubling of the selected text in some cases.
- Questions about compatibility with the latest Chrome.
Most mentioned
- Doesn't work anymore
- Super useful
- Bugs in the latest versions
- Very handy
- Love it!
Recent 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.
by 
Gaspard van Ko, 2022-02-21
Gaspard van Ko, 2022-02-21in the last versions of github is worked buggy. because i see doubling the selected text
by 
Андрей Гуртовой, 2020-03-16
Андрей Гуртовой, 2020-03-16Love it, exactly what I was looking for! Since I use this feature all the time with Atom, I can't live without it :) Great work!
by 
Lorenzo Zottar, 2016-07-25
Lorenzo Zottar, 2016-07-25Extension safety
Risk impact
GitHub Highlight Selected may not be safe to use and it requires some risky permissions. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing.
Risk likelihood
GitHub Highlight Selected has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.
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