Re: Source Scanner...

Tor Norbye said:

>>
>> 1. It creates tasks for "tags" that do not reside in a comment block.
>
> The tasklist is not java specific. Thus, you can add TODO markers in
> your XML files, in your .txt files, in your .html files.

I am aware of that, but ... (see below)

>
> The list is generated by matching a regular expression (which
> the user can customize, which defaults to
>
> DefaultScanRegexp=\\bTODO\\b|\\bFIXME\\b|@todo\\b|\\bPENDING\\b|\\bXXX\\b
> ## Additional candidates: HACK, WORKAROUND, REMOVE, OLD
>
> (See Global Options to customize it)
>
> If we add in specialized behavior like "ignore matches outside
> java comments" it complicates the user model I think.
>

One could do one of the following:

a) Let the user select a source-scanner engine to use on a given file type
the same way that the user may select the indention engine to use.

b) Let the user select something like:
Ignore matches outside comments in known filetypes
and list the filetypes.

c) Let the user specify the start/end tokens for a block comment, start
token for an "end-of-line" comment for given file types (and let the user
specify the extensions as regexs (java/c/c++ user similar comment style).

>
> Well, it's not as unusual as you think. The problem is that often the
> tag does not appear at the beginning of the line. I myself write code
> such as this:
>      hashMap = new HashMap(maxSize*2); // Decent factor? XXX
> If you strip out the stuff on the left of the token you're left
> with very little.

Interesting ;) I "oversimplyfied" things again ;)

(but I guess that I still could do some kind of "washing" of the line)

>
> Well, if you insist we could make it optional. But NetBeans already has
> too many options. We're not quite emacs yet though :)
>

I don't insist, but I would really appreciate it since I spend a lot of
time in front of the computer... (and now it "irritates" me to look at the
comments in the tasks, and "non-comment" tasks)

To avoid too much settings we could test for a "undocumented" property, so
you can toggle it on/off and watch the result when I'm done....

Trond