Custom task list comment tokens with wildcards?

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Mike Totman - 30 Jun 2007 22:09 GMT

I notice in VS 2005 (C++) that the pre-defined comment token "TODO"
gets special treatment. It seems to work like it has a wildcard on
the end. By this I mean I can have a comment like this:
"// TODO_SOON" and it will show up in the task list. If I try to do
this with "HACK" or my own, it doesn't work. As soon as I enter an
extra letter/character it disappears from the task list. And for
"TODO", it also seems to sort to the top of the task list, but as soon
as I enter the extra character, it moves to the bottom.

Is this expected/known? Can I make my own tokens behave this way?

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BobF - 30 Jun 2007 22:52 GMT

>I notice in VS 2005 (C++) that the pre-defined comment token "TODO"
> gets special treatment. It seems to work like it has a wildcard on
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> Is this expected/known? Can I make my own tokens behave this way?

Mike - I don't have an answer to your question. I find the task list to be
a pain in general because I can't see all tasks for a solution without
visiting each file.

The alternative is user tasks, but I can't link to a specific file/line for
easy return later.

What a pain ... IMO, comment tasks would be hugely useful IIF the task list
display was global to a solution.

Sorry to jump on your thread to complain

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