Re: [tasklist] "Scan files for task..." has disappeared ?

On Mon, 2003-04-28 at 05:47, Eric Hartmann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've just compiled Netbeans 3.5 from branch release35, and I cannot find
> anymore the "Scan files for task", only "Scan Directory for suggestion" is
> available. 
> 
> Is it a bug ? Or is there any other solution to find the "TODO" on a
> directory ?

Yup, that action is gone - it's superceded by Scan Directory For
Suggestions, which of course includes your TODOs (they're called
Source Comments).  Using the Show context menu action you can
filter it to only show these, not all suggestion types.

I've thought of making the Scan Directory For Suggestions action
bring up a quick "confirmation panel" where you can customize
the search (recursive true/false, suggestion types to include,
suggestion types to exclude, file extensions to include, file
extensions to exclude, etc. etc.)

If scanning for only TODOs is a particularly common task, it
could get its own dedicated action (reusing the suggestions
framework code but limited to todos). However, for now I've
been thinking that searching for pmd rule violations or
javadoc errors, etc., is equally common.

-- Tor