todo.txt syntax highlighting support

[ghost]

Hi,

There is a simple plain text file formatting called todotxt that aims to provide a very simple task management mechanism. As this is a plain TXT file, not much formatting is currently done in CotEditor. However, some other text editors like Kate natively support syntax highlighting specifically for todo.txt files (see screenshot below)

VSCodium supports todo.txt syntax highlighting with a help of plugins as well.

Would it even be reasonable to implement something similar into CotEditor directly as well?

P.S. I have a little bit of experience with Swift, and would be ready to implement the changes if this enhancement is something that others would use as well.

[1024jp]

I think it’s an interesting format, but I don’t get the sense that it’s widely used enough, so I’ll need to consider whether it should be included as a built-in syntax.