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I set the normal comment coloring to a light grey. This keeps comments from hitting my eyes, yet I can read them if needed. I also use comments to block out code sections, such as: // ******************* // read section // ******************* or // recursive method private void foo(int bar) { . . . // recurse here foo(bar++); } and so on. It would be really nice to be able have these comments jump out a bit with their own color. I can do this now, sort of, by creating a new Task Tags entry. However this creates a Task, which shows up in the Task view, and will never go away. If an new entry in Syntax Coloring/ Comments could be created for important comments? An important comment could start with: //! so //! recurse here Any comment line starting with //! would then have its own coloring and I could make it pop-out of the code
Comments are language specific, therefore moving to JDT. Probably related to Bug 63808 too.
I wasn't thinking of any actual action being taken by the IDE, just simply applying syntax coloring to a line which has the //! on it. It could also be added to other languages as each has a single line comment syntax, for instance PHP uses the same comment characters as C, C++ C#, Java, etc. Property files use #, so #! could be used.
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