[TxMt] Re: Adding new TODO scope across languages?

Jacob Rus jrus at hcs.harvard.edu
Sun Oct 22 08:40:30 UTC 2006


Dan Sandler wrote:
> As a recovering vimaholic, I miss special highlighting of (FIXME|TODO| 
> XXX) in my source.  (I realize that I can get a list of TODOs with C- 
> S-t, but it's nice to have things like "XXX: broken" or "FIXME 
> dsandler:" leap out at me as I'm skimming code.)
> 
> I seem to be able to hack these rules into individual languages; for 
> example, in Python, I changed the comment.line.number-sign.py pattern 
> thusly:
> 
> [...]
>
> So, is there any way to apply this kind of new scope to to (comments in) 
> all languages at once, or do I (or the TextMate BDFL) have to go and 
> integrate it into each one by hand?

No, but in TM 2.0, we'll have scope injection, which will allow this 
sort of thing (and much more).  In the mean time, however, if you want 
such changes, you'll just have to do it on your local copies of the 
grammars, and once for each language, sadly.

-Jacob




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