COMMENT-TAGS.el

An emacs package to highlight and list comment tags such as 'TODO', 'FIXME', 'BUG', 'XXX', 'HACK', 'KLUDGE'.

Customizations

Ability to customize highlight colors and keywords list.

• comment-tags-keywords to alter the list of highlighted/searched words.
• comment-tags-require-colon to require a matching colon (default t).
• comment-tags-comment-start-only to only match tags at the beginning of a comment (default nil).
• comment-tags-keymap-prefix to alter the default prefix (default C-c #).
• comment-tags-case-sensitive to set case-sensitivity (default t).
• comment-tags-faces to set faces for keywords.
• comment-tags-lighter to set modeline text (default nil).
• comment-tags-show-faces to show colors/faces in comment-tags buffer/search (default t).

Usage

The prefix for commands is C-c #.

Commands include:

• b to list tags in current buffer (comment-tags-list-tags-buffer).
• a to list tags in all buffers (comment-tags-list-tags-buffers).
• s to jump to tag in current buffer by a word or phrase using reading-completion (comment-tags-find-tags-buffer).
• n to jump to next tag from point (comment-tags-next-tag).
• p to jump to previous tag from point (comment-tags-previous-tag).

TODO:

• Issues/Features here: https://github.com/vincekd/comment-tags/issues

EXAMPLE CONFIG

(autoload 'comment-tags-mode "comment-tags-mode")
(setq comment-tags-keymap-prefix (kbd "C-c t"))
(with-eval-after-load "comment-tags"
  (setq comment-tags-keyword-faces
        `(("TODO" . ,(list :weight 'bold :foreground "#28ABE3"))
          ("FIXME" . ,(list :weight 'bold :foreground "#DB3340"))
          ("BUG" . ,(list :weight 'bold :foreground "#DB3340"))
          ("HACK" . ,(list :weight 'bold :foreground "#E8B71A"))
          ("KLUDGE" . ,(list :weight 'bold :foreground "#E8B71A"))
          ("XXX" . ,(list :weight 'bold :foreground "#F7EAC8"))
          ("INFO" . ,(list :weight 'bold :foreground "#F7EAC8"))
          ("DONE" . ,(list :weight 'bold :foreground "#1FDA9A"))))
  (setq comment-tags-comment-start-only t
        comment-tags-require-colon t
        comment-tags-case-sensitive t
        comment-tags-show-faces t
        comment-tags-lighter nil))
(add-hook 'prog-mode-hook 'comment-tags-mode)

Screenshots

List tags in buffer and select to jump to point.

Search tags in buffer (with search of line text) and jump to point.