GitHub 🔛 💌 Gmail

This is a Chrome Extension that allows you to open threads in GitHub notification emails with a shortcut. ✨

Features

Mail View Shortcut

Open your GitHub notifications using a shortcut (default to shift + g, or shift + b to open in the background), or this button in mail view:

List View Shortcut (*Require setup)

You have to have

1. Gmail shortcut mode enabled
2. An organization named label matching the Regular Expression (default to ^\((.+)\)).

And then you will be able to open a selected GitHub notification email thread using ctrl + return(enter) in a list view where the label is present.

Installation

The Easy Way

Install the extension via Chrome webstore

The Mu-An-might-steal-all-my-data-so-I-want-to-manually-load-it Way

1. Go to Releases and download the latest version.
2. Unzip the folder wherever you'd like.
3. Go to Chrome extensions page (chrome://extensions/) and load the folder as an Unpacked extension.

As:

Options and preferences

There are 3 preference settings:

1. Custom domains
2. Mail view shortcut
3. List view regular expression

Attention After updating a setting, please refresh both the extensions page in Chrome and the Gmail page.

Custom Domains (for GitHub Enterprise)

If you are using GitHub enterprise and have a custom domain, you can set it in the extension options page.

Mail View Shortcut

Customize your keyboard shortcut for trigger the View on GitHub button. Change it by focusing the input, and press whatever key you want to be the shortcut. It will be displayed in keyCode which is why you see 71 here instead of g, don't worry about it.

To open and focus the new window right away (shift + g):

To open a new window in the background (shift + b):

List View Regular Expression

Custom Regular Expression for matching labeled Organization name. Eg. /^\((.+)\)/ matches muan in (muan)\github-gmail, and will be use to build the url: https://github.com/muan/github-gmail/issues.

Code

All the core functions are written in src/inject/inject.js.

The End

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