OctoEdit

A Chrome Extension that adds a new tab to the comment edit area in GitHub, providing Markdown syntax highlighting and tabbing behavior.

Huge thanks to CodeMirror and Marijn Haverbeke for providing a free, MIT-licensed editor.

Install

• Chrome Store

Features

• Markdown syntax highlighting
• Syntax Highlighting for most popular languages within GFM fences
• Support for GitHub hotkey(shift + meta + p) to cycle through comment tabs

Developing

1. Clone the repository
2. Run npm run watch to enable rebuilds on change
3. Load the dist folder as an unpacked extension in Chrome

Thank you to these contributors

• James Talmage