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| sl@sh |
Posted - Nov 09 2006 : 04:48:04 AM
In reference to what I said in http://forum.wholetomato.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=5593 I would like to suggest a feature that maybe leaves the scope VAX is aiming at.
What I'm looking for is a method to locate certain 'tags' I've put into my code for different purposes. One purpose could be just a reminder to work on a particular piece of code (TODO tag), another could be some kind of comment extraction to provide a basis for a software documentation. The features such a method should supply to be helpful for me would be
- arguments: should take the tag under the cursor starting with some kind of special character (i.e. '/' or '.') and locate comment lines containing this tag
- scope: at least project, maybe solution
- result: list of entries containing the location and any text following the tags found
- usability: double-click on items in the list to move to the file and position found
- usability: resulting list or parts of it can be copied into the clipboard
At first sight this looks like a minor extension to the already existing 'find references' function, so it might not be that hard to implement. Or is it? |
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| feline |
Posted - Nov 10 2006 : 12:13:58 PM
I have put in a feature request to see what the developers think of this. I am not quite sure what they will make of it to be honest  I see the appeal, but I also see certain problems. Imagine searching for the variable:
std::vector::iterator it;
"it" tends to be a rather common word in English comments. The more unique the word you search for, the more accurate the results will be.
case=3565 |
| gmit |
Posted - Nov 10 2006 : 09:18:04 AM
>It is an interesting idea, but what scope should be searched? If
>you use Find References on a local variable then VA understands the
>scope to check, but what if there are two comments you want to
>update, one inside this scope and one outside of it?
Two options might be:
- all files
- all files in which at least one reference is found
>Find References looking inside comments or strings quickly runs
>into some "interesting" problems *sigh*
That's obvious, but, at least there would be an opportunity to see/change then when doing rename/findref. As I said, such section would be collapsed by default and unchecked in rename dialog to be least intrusive as possible if not used.
Personally, I don't use rename, but, I would consider it useful in findref.
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| feline |
Posted - Nov 10 2006 : 09:01:00 AM
It is an interesting idea, but what scope should be searched? If you use Find References on a local variable then VA understands the scope to check, but what if there are two comments you want to update, one inside this scope and one outside of it?
Find References looking inside comments or strings quickly runs into some "interesting" problems *sigh* |
| gmit |
Posted - Nov 10 2006 : 04:25:58 AM
maybe it would be a good idea for find reference to put keyword found within comments in a separate section (for example, 'comment' subtree which would be collapsed by default) |
| sl@sh |
Posted - Nov 10 2006 : 03:08:34 AM
Erm... never mind, I'm just being stupid. While find in files is nowhere near the ease of use VAX functions are it should do the job just fine. Should've thought of that myself... |
| feline |
Posted - Nov 09 2006 : 11:49:41 AM
The main objection to using Find References is that you are now searching comments, which could have side effects. Also Find References needs some understanding of the code, while you are simply after a straight search of the files.
Reading your description, it sounds like you are describing "select some text and press CTRL-SHIFT-F", which is the IDE's find in files feature The real trick here is making sure that your selected tags are in a standard format and are fairly unique. Have you considered using autotext to allow you to quickly and easily insert the "leading comment" part, perhaps something like:
/// triggers //**TODO** $end$ |
