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There are several Eclipse plugins/features available meanwhile that all allow to configure task tags (TODO, FIXME, ...), each at different places in the preferences dialog. Since this is getting too annoying to do it for each feature separately, they should all be consolidated in *one* place of the preferences dialog.
Created attachment 140865 [details] Preferences dialog with various places to configure task tags to illustrate what is meant
This is really a symptom of the component-based nature of Eclipse. While it sounds simple enough to put everything in one dialog, the real issue here is that different plug-ins are defining their own compiler task tags and therefore providing their own preference UI for defining them. In order to build a generic "task tag" UI, there would have to be some generic concept of task tags at the core level (an extension point similar to markers that would allow different plug-ins to register the tag strings). Additional questions are whether deeper sharing would be desired - that the same text could be interpreted by all compilers as a task tag when appearing in a comment. There would then be a migration path for the various compilers to honor these settings. If all of this existed, then a common UI could be built that allowed the user to define these common tags. Moving to platform resources for comment.
This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet. If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.
