Color Highlighter

Description

Color Highlighter is a Visual Studio Code extension that highlights specific keywords in your code comments (e.g., TODO, FIXME) with customizable background colors. Additionally, the extension provides a command to count the total number of non-empty lines of code in the entire project.

Features

1. Comment Highlighting

• Highlights TODO comments with a yellow background.
• Highlights FIXME comments with a red background.
• Customizable keywords via settings.

2. Count Lines of Code

• Counts all non-empty lines of code in the project.
• Supports popular programming languages such as JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Java, C, C++, and C#.

Usage

Highlight Comments

1. Open a file with one of the supported programming languages.
2. Add comments containing TODO or FIXME (or your custom keywords).
3. The comments will automatically be highlighted in yellow (for TODO) or red (for FIXME).

Toggle Highlighting

1. Open the command palette (Ctrl+Shift+P or Cmd+Shift+P on macOS).
2. Search for Toggle Comment Highlighter and select the command to enable or disable highlighting.

Count Lines of Code

1. Open the command palette (Ctrl+Shift+P or Cmd+Shift+P on macOS).
2. Search for Count Lines of Code and select the command.
3. A notification will display the total number of non-empty lines of code in the project.

Configuration

You can customize the keywords to highlight via your VS Code settings:

1. Go to File > Preferences > Settings (or Cmd+, on macOS).
2. Search for Comment Highlighter.
3. Update the list of keywords to highlight (default: TODO, FIXME).

Example setting in settings.json:

{
  "commentHighlighter.keywords": ["TODO", "FIXME", "NOTE"]
}

Supported Languages

• JavaScript
• TypeScript
• Python
• Java
• C
• C++
• C#

Installation

1. Download and install the .vsix file.
2. Open Visual Studio Code.
3. Go to Extensions (Ctrl+Shift+X or Cmd+Shift+X on macOS).
4. Click on the ... menu in the top-right corner of the Extensions view.
5. Select Install from VSIX... and choose the downloaded .vsix file.

Known Issues

• The extension may not highlight comments in unsupported languages.
• Performance may degrade for extremely large files.

Contributing

If you'd like to contribute to this extension, feel free to submit a pull request or open an issue on GitHub.

Release Notes

0.0.4

• Added Git repository
• Change Search name

0.0.3

• Added Logo of Plugin

0.0.2

• Added Count Lines of Code command.
• Improved keyword highlighting.

0.0.1

• Initial release with TODO and FIXME highlighting.

License

MIT