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Bug 313737

Summary:	[syntax highlighting] set task tag color and font style is ignored, when using symbols like !:? in tag name
Product:	[Eclipse Project] JDT	Reporter:	Jörgen Rapp <jorgen_rapp>
Component:	Text	Assignee:	JDT-Text-Inbox <jdt-text-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	daniel_megert, jorgen_rapp, prakash
Version:	3.5
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Jörgen Rapp

2010-05-20 10:35:58 EDT

Build Identifier: 20090920-1017 - 3.5 ganymede

go to preferences: java.editor.syntax coloring
select Comments.Task tags

change look to underlined red
Nothing happens in the decoration of user defined task tasks

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.go to preferences: java.editor.syntax coloring
2.select Comments.Task tags
3.change look to underlined red
4.Nothing happens in the decoration of user defined task tasks though predefined tasks are decorated (TODO, XXX, FIXME)

Comment 1 Dani Megert

2010-05-25 03:07:30 EDT

This works fine for me in 3.6 RC2 using the Java editor with Task tags defined on the Java > Compiler > Task Tags preference or project properties page. Maybe you have project specific task tags and then of course changing them on the preference has no effect.

Comment 2 Jörgen Rapp

2010-05-25 11:45:44 EDT

Ah, looks like it's my naming convention that breaks it, since I use priority markers that seems to act as separators in some parsing or similar.
I use {taskName}{priority-symbol}

so 
ACTION! - high
ACTION: - normal
ACTION? - low

if you name your task ACTION! it won't highlight anymore.

//BUG! this is crazy and we need to fix it NOW
//PERFORMANCE? not the best solution and we might have to fix it
//TEST: make sure it works when it's cold outside
//REFACTOR? could break out class A for this
//CONFIRM! check with Duke about closures

I suppose I could work around it by using 1,2,3 for prios, but I do like my syntax better since it tells me more than just the priority (a sense of urgency), and I use 8 or so of these tags.

Comment 3 Dani Megert

2010-05-25 11:53:48 EDT

It only recognize 1 single word.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 58205 ***