BBedit 9 supports finding “fixme’s”: it’ll search for instances of FIXME or TODO in code. However it inexplicably only works in C/C++ and Ruby.
Aside: Quick, which language is this comment in?
// FIXME: This needs work.
The correct answer is “One of: C, C++, Java, JavaScript, PHP, and maybe others.” I suppose we’ll see those languages supporting the FIXME in later versions …
Anyway, here’s an Applescript to find all the FIXME/TODOs in a document:
tell application "BBEdit"
set searchString to "(\\/\\/|#)\\s*(FIXME|TODO)[\\s:]*(.*)"
set theResult to find (searchString as string) searching in document of text window 1 options {wrap around:true, text files only:true, starting at top:true, case sensitive:true, search mode:grep}
end tell
That works pretty well enough, until they add it to other languages…
