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Josh
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 Posted - Oct 09 2016 : 6:45:00 PM
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Is it possible to make a VA Tags window that has the same features as VA Hashtags, but can include simple custom formatting.
Specifically I would like to emulate the VS Task List in a meaningful way. My project includes legacy code with comments such as \\ TODO rather than \\ #todo and it would be neat to be able to navigate those comments. |
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Whole Tomato Software
United Kingdom
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Posted - Oct 14 2016 : 03:30:36 AM
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Isn't is possible to use search and replace on the legacy code?
Also you can use find in files to find all TODO items.
The point of the VA Hashtag window that we can find all tags instead of just TODO items or any pre-specified string. If you want to only find specific words such as TODO, find in files can do a good job as well IMO. |
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Josh
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Posted - Oct 16 2016 : 7:15:28 PM
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Yes, it's possible to find and replace in the code but I don't want to for the sake of the IDE.
You can find in files for # too.
The VS task list is useful to me, but it's broken. It would be good to track all different comment tags in one window without being stuck using a specific character (which I may use for other purposes). |
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Whole Tomato Software
United Kingdom
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Posted - Oct 19 2016 : 6:55:49 PM
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The VS task list is useful to me, but it's broken.
What do you mean by broken? It doesn't work at all, or you don't like how it behaves?
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it would be neat to be able to navigate those comments
What version of the IDE are you using? We did a quick test in-house and it seems that in VS2015, you can navigate in all files. In earlier IDEs you could only navigate the task list in the current file. But it seems that in a recent build this was fixed.
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You can find in files for # too.
VA hashtags is different from the IDE task list in that you can use any word, any tag, not just pre-defined words such as todo or fixme. If you try to find any '#', in find in files, you would get an awful lot of false positives.
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My project includes legacy code with comments such as \\ TODO rather than \\ #todo and it would be neat to be able to navigate those comments.
With the latest IDE, you should be able to do that.
Our fear with including normal TODO items is that it would make the VA Hashtags window noisy. Hashtags are designed to mark related places in a way that you can navigate between the same tags, while with task list you just want a simple list without hierarchy.
For example, if you put #fixForNextBuild in a few places, and you press alt+G or alt+shift+G on it, all the other instances will be listed. You can use them as a hyperlink, e.g. see:#addBraces and put #addBraces at the destination. Alt+G will take you there. VA hashtags window also groups them. (Goto works even when the VA Hashtags window is not open.) |
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Josh
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Posted - Oct 19 2016 : 11:47:47 PM
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Originally posted by accord
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You can find in files for # too.
VA hashtags is different from the IDE task list in that you can use any word, any tag, not just pre-defined words such as todo or fixme. If you try to find any '#', in find in files, you would get an awful lot of false positives.
I really like this and I was trying to build on this idea with my request. I had the idea that maybe any keyword could be added to either the hashtags window, or a similar-but-different window. Find in files gives me things like .toDouble when I want todo, so it helps when you can parse the comments.
I'm using VS2013 btw.
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Whole Tomato Software
United Kingdom
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Posted - Oct 21 2016 : 6:58:41 PM
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We don't just want to replicate VS task list. Why do you think it would be better to use VA Hashtags instead of VS tasklist for stepping through TODO items?
>Find in files gives me things like .toDouble when I want todo
Have you considered using match case and match whole word in Find in Files?
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Instead of VA Hashtags, just VA Tags
