Better Comments Regex

• Fork from the Better Comments extension.
• Add support for regex patterns in the tags.
• Simply add a isRegex property to the tag object and set it to true.
• Whole line tags can be added by setting the isWholeLine property to true.

Regex Tag Example

An example of highlighting a markdown list with light yellow color.

{
	"tag": "\\d+ ?\\.",
	"color": "#999900",
	"isRegex": true,
},

Whole Line Tag Example

An example of a divider made by a line of dashes. Makes the entire line a gray color. (applies after the whitespace after the line text)

{
	"tag": "-{5,}",
	"color": "#000000",
	"backgroundColor": "#666666",
	"isRegex": true,
	"isWholeLine": true,
},

Better Comments

The Better Comments extension will help you create more human-friendly comments in your code.
With this extension, you will be able to categorise your annotations into:

• Alerts
• Queries
• TODOs
• Highlights
• Commented out code can also be styled to make it clear the code shouldn't be there
• Any other comment styles you'd like can be specified in the settings

Configuration

This extension can be configured in User Settings or Workspace settings.

"better-comments.multilineComments": true
This setting will control whether multiline comments are styled using the annotation tags. When false, multiline comments will be presented without decoration.

"better-comments.highlightPlainText": false
This setting will control whether comments in a plain text file are styled using the annotation tags. When true, the tags (defaults: ! * ? //) will be detected if they're the first character on a line.

better-comments.tags
The tags are the characters or sequences used to mark a comment for decoration. The default 5 can be modified to change the colors, and more can be added.

"better-comments.tags": [
  {
    "tag": "!",
    "color": "#FF2D00",
    "strikethrough": false,
    "underline": false,
    "backgroundColor": "transparent",
    "bold": false,
    "italic": false
  },
  {
    "tag": "?",
    "color": "#3498DB",
    "strikethrough": false,
    "underline": false,
    "backgroundColor": "transparent",
    "bold": false,
    "italic": false
  },
  {
    "tag": "//",
    "color": "#474747",
    "strikethrough": true,
    "underline": false,
    "backgroundColor": "transparent",
    "bold": false,
    "italic": false
  },
  {
    "tag": "todo",
    "color": "#FF8C00",
    "strikethrough": false,
    "underline": false,
    "backgroundColor": "transparent",
    "bold": false,
    "italic": false
  },
  {
    "tag": "*",
    "color": "#98C379",
    "strikethrough": false,
    "underline": false,
    "backgroundColor": "transparent",
    "bold": false,
    "italic": false
  }
]

Supported Languages

• Ada
• AL
• Apex
• AsciiDoc
• BrightScript
• C
• C#
• C++
• ColdFusion
• Clojure
• COBOL
• CoffeeScript
• CSS
• Dart
• Dockerfile
• Elixir
• Elm
• Erlang
• F#
• Fortran
• gdscript
• GenStat
• Go
• GraphQL
• Groovy
• Haskell
• Haxe
• HiveQL
• HTML
• Java
• JavaScript
• JavaScript React
• JSON with comments
• Julia
• Kotlin
• LaTex (inlc. Bibtex/Biblatex)
• Less
• Lisp
• Lua
• Makefile
• Markdown
• Nim
• MATLAB
• Objective-C
• Objective-C++
• Pascal
• Perl
• Perl 6
• PHP
• Pig
• PlantUML
• PL/SQL
• PowerShell
• Puppet
• Python
• R
• Racket
• Ruby
• Rust
• SAS
• Sass
• Scala
• SCSS
• ShaderLab
• ShellScript
• SQL
• STATA
• Stylus
• Svelte
• Swift
• Tcl
• Terraform
• Twig
• TypeScript
• TypeScript React
• Verilog
• Visual Basic
• Vue.js
• XML
• YAML