[Lazarus] Lazarus directives

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Dec 2013 14:40:59 +0000
> Mark Morgan Lloyd <markMLl.lazarus at telemetry.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>> [...]
>>>> Would it be possible to add %todo as an alternative to todo:, to reduce 
>>>> proliferation of multiple formats?
>>> Do you mean like this:
>>> http://xkcd.com/927/
>> Well yes :-) But if %directive is being adopted as a standard, I'd 
>> suggest that encouraging the migration of TODO: to that form would be 
>> desirable.
> 
> How do yo want to encourage that?

My suggestion would be to change the IDE to recognise %todo as well as 
todo:, in three releases time (1.8?) have the IDE insert new items 
favouring %todo, and at 2.0- which is presumably not on anybody's radar 
at the moment- rewrite todo: as %todo.

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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