Github Codesearch extension for Visual Studio Code

This simple extension allows you to search for selected text from your VS Code editor in Github repositories.

The extension will open a new tab in your default browser with the search results for the highlighted text.

It is based on Github Search queries, whose official documentation can be found here: https://docs.github.com/en/search-github/searching-on-github

Features

• Search for code in all Github repositories
• Possible to limit search scope to a specific organization, repositories or languages
• Hotkey support

Keybindings

The default keybinding for the extension is:

• For Mac: Cmd + Shift + Alt + F
• For Windows: Ctrl + Shift + Alt + F

It is available when you have some text selected in the editor.

Extension Settings

This extension contributes the following settings:

• github-codesearch.wrapText:

  • Type: boolean
  • Default: false
  • Description: Wrap search text in quotes.

• github-codesearch.trimText:

  • Type: boolean
  • Default: false
  • Description: Trim whitespaces from search text.

• github-codesearch.type:

  • Type: string
  • Default: code
  • Description: Search type. Possible values are code, repositories, commits, issues, packages, topics, wikis, users.

• github-codesearch.organization:

  • Type: string
  • Default: None
  • Example: microsoft
  • Description: Limit search to an organization.

• github-codesearch.repositories:

  • Type: array
  • Default: None
  • Example: ["microsoft/vscode", "vscode-python"]
  • Description: Limit search to one or more repositories. If organization is set, the repository name should be enough. Otherwise, the full repository path with organization must be used.

• github-codesearch.languages:

  • Type: array
  • Default: None
  • Example: ["Python", "JavaScript"]
  • Description: Limit search to one or more languages. The language names can be found on Github.

Known Issues

None.

Release Notes

0.0.2

Add more customizable settings.

0.0.1

Initial release of Github Codesearch.