Multi line TODO lists

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Created October 24, 2011 12:38

Is there anyway or any regular expressions which will pick multi line TODO comments like:

# TODO: do that and this

# and please do this also blah blah

nothing I've I tried as a regular expression in Settings | TODO | Patterns is working.

Thanks

5 comments

Dmitry Jemerov

Created October 24, 2011 13:10

Hello Erkan,

No, this is not possible. In a general case, there is no possibility to determine

whethe the line following a TODO comment line is semantically part of the

TODO or not.

Is there anyway or any regular expressions which will pick multi line

TODO comments like:

TODO: do that and this

and please do this also blah blah

nothing I've I tried as a regular expression in Settings | TODO |

Patterns is working.

Dmitry Jemerov

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Created October 24, 2011 13:42

I saw a couple of other discussions dated back to 2003 and a they were suggesting to include the comment lines immediately following the first TODO comment should be considered as the rest of the TODO.

for:

todo = """    # TODO: do something and
    # something other
    # and this is too
    but do not pick this one"""

re.findall(r"\btodo\b[ #\s\S\w\W]*\n", todo, flags=re.IGNORECASE)

will return

['TODO: do something and\n # something other\n # and this is too\n']

which is what I want (ugly!), but it will not find any TODO lines when I enter this pattern to the TODO pattern setting.

Anyway I'll try to keep using single line TODOs

Thanks for your quick response.