Incorrect Todo parsing

[VolkmarR]

The parsing of the comments to extract the items for the task list doesn't work as expected.

Try to add the following comments to a prg file.

// TODO: Should be listed in task list
// This is a comment containing the word todo, which should not be listed in the task list
// Chackbox (Checkbox with typo) should not be listed in the task list

This creates the following task entries

It seems, that every comment containing the substring Todo, Hack or Undone is added to the task list. But only comments beginning with Todo, Hack or Undone should be used.

[RobertvanderHulst]

Volkmar,
The tokens that we scan for are configurable in VS:
Tools/Options
Environment/Tasklist
I checked what C# does and it will:

• include TODO:
• include todo,
• NOT include hackbox

So it apparently C# makes sure that the text is a whole word and not part of another word.
We'll change our implementation to follow that model.

[VolkmarR]

Hello Robert,

I did some additional tests. It seems, that for cs files, visual studio creates a task item for every comment-line, that begins with one of the defined tokes (if the token is not part of another word). It makes no difference if the comment is a single line or multi line comment.

I personally never created a Todo entry inside a multi-line comment, so i wouldn't mind, if that would not work.

[RobertvanderHulst]

Volkmar,
Thanks for the research. I'll adjust our task items accordingly.

[cpyrgas]

Confirmed fixed