Multi line TODOs

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Hi.

I am pondering if the following is useful for more than me -

Sometimes I feel forced to write a very long TODO and then I can't wrap the
text as it would cut the text in the TODO tree.


I would like to have multi line TODOs. The way it can work is to have the
TODO extend until a non comment line is reached, so that:

// TODO Line1
// Line2

will appear as 1 TODO in the TODO tree instead of just having Line1 appear
in the TODO tree.

Another option:
// TODO Line1
// TODO Line2

instead of appearing as 2 TODOs they would appear as 1.

If it makes sense I'll add a request.

Amnon


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One thing I remember asking a long time ago was that IDEA supported
multiline reg-exp patterns for TODOs (either through the syntax or by
offering a check-box for enabling it).

Having that, you could define a multiline pattern like this

//TODO
//endTODO

or any other way you wanted. I'm not sure why JetBrains chose not to
implement it, I'm quite often in need of being more verbose than I can be on
a single TODO line. Probably they considered that all you need is to find
the start of the TODO item.

I'm for a multiline TODO, let see what others think.

Andrei

"Amnon I. Govrin" <agovrin@freshwater.com> wrote in message
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Hi.

>

I am pondering if the following is useful for more than me -

>

Sometimes I feel forced to write a very long TODO and then I can't wrap

the

text as it would cut the text in the TODO tree.

>
>

I would like to have multi line TODOs. The way it can work is to have the
TODO extend until a non comment line is reached, so that:

>

// TODO Line1
// Line2

>

will appear as 1 TODO in the TODO tree instead of just having Line1 appear
in the TODO tree.

>

Another option:
// TODO Line1
// TODO Line2

>

instead of appearing as 2 TODOs they would appear as 1.

>

If it makes sense I'll add a request.

>

Amnon

>
>


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On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 15:55:48 -0700, Amnon I. Govrin wrote:

Sometimes I feel forced to write a very long TODO and then I can't wrap
the text as it would cut the text in the TODO tree.


I believe I entered an issue for this ages ago...

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"Amnon I. Govrin" <agovrin@freshwater.com> wrote in message
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Sometimes I feel forced to write a very long TODO and then I can't wrap

the

text as it would cut the text in the TODO tree.


I would loooooove to have multi-line todos.


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"Amnon I. Govrin" <agovrin@freshwater.com> wrote in message
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Hi.

>

I am pondering if the following is useful for more than me -

>

Sometimes I feel forced to write a very long TODO and then I can't wrap

the

text as it would cut the text in the TODO tree.

>
>

I would like to have multi line TODOs. The way it can work is to have the
TODO extend until a non comment line is reached, so that:

>

// TODO Line1
// Line2

>

will appear as 1 TODO in the TODO tree instead of just having Line1 appear
in the TODO tree.

>

Another option:
// TODO Line1
// TODO Line2

>

instead of appearing as 2 TODOs they would appear as 1.

>

If it makes sense I'll add a request.

>

Amnon

>
>


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; )

I would rather have web modules.

I use my todo tags as a marker, with a brief description. I include
comments directly below the todo if it needs further explanation.


"Michael Jouravlev" <mikus@mail.ru> wrote in message
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"Amnon I. Govrin" <agovrin@freshwater.com> wrote in message
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Sometimes I feel forced to write a very long TODO and then I can't wrap

the

text as it would cut the text in the TODO tree.

>

I would loooooove to have multi-line todos.

>
>


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+1


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Norris Shelton wrote:

; )

I would rather have web modules.


+10000000... Please finish broken/incomplete functionality before
adding even more to something that works, and that is pretty minimal
since it doesn't stop you from working.

R


I use my todo tags as a marker, with a brief description. I include
comments directly below the todo if it needs further explanation.


"Michael Jouravlev" <mikus@mail.ru> wrote in message
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>>"Amnon I. Govrin" <agovrin@freshwater.com> wrote in message
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>>>Sometimes I feel forced to write a very long TODO and then I can't wrap
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>>>text as it would cut the text in the TODO tree.
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>>I would loooooove to have multi-line todos.
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"Norris Shelton" <nshelton@appriss.com> wrote in message
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; )

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I would rather have web modules.



Fair enough. :)

Andrei


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Amnon I. Govrin wrote:

Hi.

I am pondering if the following is useful for more than me -

Sometimes I feel forced to write a very long TODO and then I can't wrap the
text as it would cut the text in the TODO tree.


I would like to have multi line TODOs. The way it can work is to have the
TODO extend until a non comment line is reached, so that:

// TODO Line1
// Line2

will appear as 1 TODO in the TODO tree instead of just having Line1 appear
in the TODO tree.

Another option:
// TODO Line1
// TODO Line2

instead of appearing as 2 TODOs they would appear as 1.

If it makes sense I'll add a request.

Amnon


There are already similar "feature" items in the tracker.


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+1 for multi-line TODO and FIXME

See also Multi-line-TODO-lists

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+1 for multi-line TODO and FIXME

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The feature will be provided in 2018.3 version: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-62161.

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