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IDE 'Issues' fails to detect the string "!!!"

Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2018 2:40 am
by akj
I'm trying to use the IDE Editor Preferences for issues, such as "TODO" and "FIXME" for a new issue "!!!".
I have tried various regular expressions to match !!! such as \b!!!\b.* and \b\!\!\!\b.* and \b\x21\x21\x21\b.* but none of them work.
What will work?

P.S. In the Preference window for Issues the phrase "Regular expression" is mis-spelt as "Regular exression".

Re: IDE 'Issues' fails to detect the string "!!!"

Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2018 3:23 am
by Demivec
It may be working but not displaying correctly. If you have use 'Background for Procedures' or 'Currentline Background' colors in the Coloring preferences it won't display the matching phrases properly, if at all. If those are being used uncheck them in the Coloring preferences.

Here is a link to my post on the 'Issues' that I used that all included three punctuation marks. The one you are wanting is included in that post.

Re: IDE 'Issues' fails to detect the string "!!!"

Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2018 4:54 am
by akj
Hi Demivec. Thanks for your suggestions.
In the end I decided to use the very simple regular expression !!! to match the !!! text
It seems to work quite well.