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Feature Request: Unlimited Custom Keywords (or more, at least)

Open brianjlacy opened this issue 6 years ago • 5 comments

It would be much more useful if we could add a variety of additional custom keyword patterns. Having only four possible options is pretty limited!

brianjlacy avatar Jan 31 '19 21:01 brianjlacy

I've been thinking about it a lot, and it's pretty much in my backlog for this project. It's just a matter of finding some free time to work on it. Hopefully soon.

omsharp avatar Feb 01 '19 01:02 omsharp

+1 for this.

Loving the extension, but would love for the ability to set, for example.. !!; bug; error (Semicolon, comma, space delimited?)

and have them all recognized as the important type, etc.


I do wonder how difficult it may be to allow the user to add their own entirely custom comment tags and colors?

Bejasc avatar Jun 24 '20 01:06 Bejasc

Actually, I'm working on a new extension that has unlimited custom classification tokens made by the user (with other more features). I'm currently working on some loose nuts to tight before I can release a beta.

https://www.reddit.com/r/VisualStudio/comments/h003vm/visual_studio_extension_in_progress

omsharp avatar Jun 24 '20 02:06 omsharp

Looks fantastic - love the new display. Will there be any ability to feature multi-line comments?

I imagine you could do what I'm suggesting like this..

//Bug : Fix this bug in the next build
/*
Details about this bug
Spreading over multiple lines
Using a multi line comment
*/

Though, it would give you two comments to collapse.


It would be fantastic if you could write as..

/* 
Bug : Fix this bug in the next build
Details about this bug
Spreading over multiple lines
Using a multi line comment
*/

Where the comment was collapsible, showing as [BUG] Fix this in the next build in the style of the classification, even if it were collapsed or expanded. I would suggest that the multi-line component (everything after the classification line/title) colour should be customised separately from the title line.

Either way, very keen for the new plugin - definite add for me.

Bejasc avatar Jun 29 '20 06:06 Bejasc

One of the favorite extensions. I looked at the sources of the extension and came to the conclusion that it is quite possible to implement several tokens (set in the existing form through a comma, space, etc.) quite possible.

DkmS1953 avatar Aug 29 '20 10:08 DkmS1953