VSCode language specific settings

[Anoesj]

Hey, thanks for Todo Tree, using it all the time!

It would be nice if, at least, the todo-tree.regex.regex setting can be configured per-language: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/settings#_language-specific-editor-settings

It doesn't work right now. Thank you!

[Gruntfuggly]

Hi - the problem with this is I don't think the extension API allows access to language specific settings. I've done it in another extension, but it's a hack and generates warnings in your settings files as far as I remember.

[Anoesj]

Ah okay, too bad! Thanks anyway :)

[tobiasdiez]

This would indeed be a nice feature.

To enable language-specific settings, one needs to set "scope": "language-overridable" , see "scope" under https://code.visualstudio.com/api/references/contribution-points#Configuration-property-schema. Could this feature request be reopened please?

[Gruntfuggly]

@tobiasdiez Unfortunately it doesn't make any sense to make the regex language overridable because ripgrep does a file search - it has to be able to find things in any type of file. It could be changed for searching within editors, but that could result in inconsistent behaviour.

I will have another think about it though.

[Fred-Vatin]

Doesn’t extension API allow to only search in comments instead of parsing the whole file ? I’m sure there is an issue on VSCode repo on that if it doesn’t.

[Gruntfuggly]

The extension is primarily designed to search files - searching only comments would be a big change and I don't think the API does support it - it would need a language parser to understand the comments, and at that point it might as well be part of a language based extension.

[Fred-Vatin]

There are workarounds like exposed in this issue.

better comments parses files searching for specific language one line comments and block comments. It is pretty smart because it doesn’t use a general regex containing all the possible comments for any languages on each file but a very specific regex for each language detected. It doesn’t solve any issues but prevents some false detection on file that would contains line start with another specific language comment delimiter.

[Gruntfuggly]

I'm closing this as it's not something that fits with the way the extension is currently designed.