#99 Structured Editor TAGS based Task support

[Harsha]

Hi,

Eclipse editors support auto Eclipse Tasks creation using tags in form of embedded TODO or TBD comments. It would be a useful feature if SVE can implement this.

refer: https://sourceforge.net/p/sveditor/discussion/833802/thread/95c44bfb/#f109

Thanks
Harsha

[Matthew Ballance]

Hello Harsha,
I've just added support for the 1.7.3 release. Currently, 'TODO:' and 'FIXME:' tags are recognized.

Best Regards,
Matthew

[Harsha]

Thanks Matthew!

I am however finding it difficult to get it work. Can you describe the steps you used ?

Thanks,
Harsha

[Matthew Ballance]

SVEditor scans files for tags that have been specified to be indexed, so the first thing to confirm is that the file to which you've added a task tag has a little blue dot next to it in the project explorer.
The one corner case that I'm aware of is that a comment is determined to be a NaturalDocs comment, a Task comment, or neither. This means that if you add a task tag to a NaturalDocs comment, the task tag will be ignored. For example:

/**

 * Class: my_class
 * This is documentation for my class
 *
 * TODO: Implement this class
 */

In this case, the TODO tag would be ignored, since the comment is determined to be a NaturalDocs comment.

I'll re-open this issue for tracking until we determine how to make this work in your environment.

[Harsha]

Hello Matthew,

Thanks for opening this one.

I can confirm that the file is part of the filelist and is being indexed. There is a blue dot.

My Tags are like below

some code ...
// TODO XYZ
some code ...

regards
Harsha

[Matthew Ballance]

Ah... I see what's going on. I wrote the code assuming task tags in the format that I use:

// TODO: message

It turns out that JDT considers the colon optional. I'll get this addressed and let you know.

[Harsha]

Hello Matthew,

This now works as expected. I am able to get the Tasks auto extracted from code.

Thanks!
Harsha