I accidentally stumbled upon this seemingly undocumented ([edit] ok, only slightly[/i-documented!) feature just by typing one of the two special keywords, but when I searched for it in Google there was only one or two proper references to it, and in the PB Helpfile the only reference to it was a brief mention sneakily hidden away in the History section, which is what most of the five or so other Google references were. I couldn't see anything about it at the "Comments" page in the helpfile either, an amendment maybe?
THE FEATURE!
If you type "TODO" or "FIXME" in all uppercase within a comment it specially highlights that part of the comment and all words after it (anything before it like the ";" comment marker itself remains as regular comment color), making it really easy to mark & get back to important things later because unlike regular comments which don't stand out (which i think is a good thing) these ones do
I think its a really handy feature and Ive started using it a LOT already (but maybe that says a lot about how bad about my code is), thanks Fred!
Last edited by Keya on Sat Aug 15, 2015 12:27 am, edited 1 time in total.
It's certainly a cool feature (officially added in PB 5.30), but not as undocumented and hidden as you say! Check out the IDE preferences -> Editor -> Issues for more not-so-hidden customization options. It's also mentioned in the "Customizing the IDE" section of the help file. And a couple of months ago there were some new discussions and tricks (e.g. here)...
If any of you native English speakers have any suggestions for the above text, please let me know (via PM). Thanks!
Oh, excellent! We can even add our own!
Now I can add extra comment alerts like "IDEA", "FORLATER", and "THISISJUSTPLAINSTUPID"
I see that it's documented as "Issues"... when i stumbled upon it all i knew was that "TODO" was highlighted so that's the only thing I had to search for (and from that POV yes it's undocumented, lol)
Cool i have not see this option
So i use again the 5.23, but it's another reason to change my version in futur time.
Thanks KEYA to show this option with a picture for immediately see the interest
And thanks to C4S to explain for the preference
There is another part to this feature:
Under "Tools -> Issue Browser" you can view all marked issues as a list and jump to the relevant code line by double-clicking. If you have a project, you can see the issues for the entire project (even in files that are not open). It can be used as a todo-list for the project.
