What source comments does Xcode recognize as tags?
There is also MARK
, FIXME
, !!!
and ???
, e.g.
// FIXME: this bug needs to be fixed
and
// ???: WTF ???
You can see where these are defined in /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/OtherFrameworks/XcodeEdit.framework/Versions/A/Resources/BaseSupport.xclangspec
(or /Developer/Library/PrivateFrameworks/XcodeEdit.framework/Resources/BaseSupport.xclangspec
for older versions of Xcode). Presumably you could also add your own tags here if you wanted to but I have not actually tried this. Here is the relevant section in BaseSupport.xclangspec
:
{ Identifier = "xcode.lang.comment.mark"; Syntax = { StartChars = "MTF!?"; Match = ( "^MARK:[ \t]+\(.*\)$", "^\(TODO:[ \t]+.*\)$", // include "TODO: " in the markers list "^\(FIXME:[ \t]+.*\)$", // include "FIXME: " in the markers list "^\(!!!:.*\)$", // include "!!!:" in the markers list "^\(\\?\\?\\?:.*\)$" // include "???:" in the markers list ); // This is the order of captures. All of the match strings above need the same order. CaptureTypes = ( "xcode.syntax.mark" ); Type = "xcode.syntax.comment"; };},
These tags are also supported in the BBEdit text editor and its freeware sibling TextWrangler.