[Lazarus] Lazarus directives

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Dec 2013 20:01:11 +0100
> Reimar Grabowski <reimgrab at web.de> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 16 Dec 2013 19:05:49 +0100
>> Mattias Gaertner <nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de> wrote:
>> [...]
>> Disclaimer: I don't favor any one of the todos over the other. You asked how to encourage usage and that's how I would do it.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> The todo list package was abandoned by the original inventor. Currently
> I maintain it, that means keep it compiling. I don't use it myself and
> I have no plans to extend it. The package supports various todo formats
> and if someone wants to add another one feel free to send a patch.
> Parsing a todo is pretty simple so there is almost no maintenance cost
> to support another format. I see little reason to remove a format.
> At the moment it supports:
> //todo, //#todo, {todo}, {#todo}, (*todo*), (*#todo*)
> And the same for 'done'.
> 
> IMHO it would be nice if the user can check what todo formats he likes
> (e.g. list of checkboxes). By default it could be only {%todo},
> {%done}.

I'm not promising, I'm still trying to find a SPARC bug. But I think it 
would be nice if everything were guided towards consistency.

> Keep in mind that IDE directives only supports the curly bracket
> comments.

Thanks for the reminder, I think FPC macros have a similar restriction.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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