On 23 March 2010 05:41, Dominic Hopf <dmaphy@googlemail.com> wrote:
Am Sonntag, den 21.03.2010, 20:36 -0800 schrieb Ari:
> Hi - I'm trying to get Geany to highlight TODO and FIXME notes in red or with
> a different background.
> I've been playing with filetypes.python but I can only geany to highlight
> TODO when not in a comment line.
>
> Is there a way to do this?
Maybe Ctrl-Shift-M is what you're searching for? :)

> I noticed there is a plugin that "collects" TODO tasks and it would be
> useful to me if it didn't require a "description" of the TODO, which I don't
> do in many cases, and of course, if it would somehow highlight the
> TODO/FIXME note.

Maybe such a feature could be implemented in the plugin. I'd suggest you
to file a feature request at sourceforge [1].

Best Regards,
Dominic


I'd expect that this needs to be done in the scintilla language lexer, specifically the lexer needs to look for TODO within comments.  I presume you got it to work outside comments by setting TODO as a keyword, but lexers don't ignore keywords in comments, strings etc, after all thats the language definition :-)

In fact AFAIK no lexer looks for any structure within a comment.  A  plugin would be "fighting" the lexer to style that bit of text so I doubt it would work.

Cheers
Lex
[1] http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=222729&atid=1056535

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