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

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

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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

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
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

in the last versions of github is worked buggy. because i see doubling the selected text

Love 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
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Extension safety

Risk impact

GitHub Highlight Selected requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

GitHub Highlight Selected has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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