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Error Help

Gihan Siriwardhana

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Error Help

This is a very simple extension developed to help developers in searching help for errors🎆.

What can this extension do ?

Search errors in the code in Google

Search errors in the code in Stackoverflow

Search errors in the code in Github

Search errors in the code in Youtube

Search a selected text in Google

Search a selected text in StackOverflow

Directly navigate to stackoverflow questions based on the search

How to use this extension ?

Search Directly on Google

  • Press Ctrl + Alt + G, insert the text and press Enter.
  • Press Ctrl + Shift + P, type >Search Text Google ,insert the text and press Enter.

Search selected text using StackOverflow API

  1. Select a portion of text in the editor.
  2. Press Ctrl + Alt + S, wait for the result to display.
  3. Select any option you like.

Search errors in the code in Google

  • Press Ctrl + Shift + P, type >Search Google ,select the error and press Enter.

Search errors in the code in Github

  • Press Ctrl + Shift + P, type >Search Github ,select the error and press Enter.

Search errors in the code in Youtube

  • Press Ctrl + Shift + P, type >Search Youtube ,select the error and press Enter.

Search errors in the code in Stackoverflow

  • Press Ctrl + Shift + P, type >Search StackOverflow ,select the error and press Enter.

search on stackoverflow

Future Work

  • Capture Exception Stacktrace.

Contribute to this Extensions and Add your ideas.

  • Github Repository

Add your ideas as issues and code as PRs in the repository and make sure to star the repository 😊

  1. Fork the repository
  2. Create your feature branch git checkout -b feature/<your-feature>
  3. Commit and Push your Changes
  4. Add a Pull Request. Make sure to add the badge FEATURE
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