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Toodles

Thom Bruce

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Adds Toodles language features to VS Code
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Toodles VS Code README

Adds syntax highlighting for .todo, .shop and .list documents based on an extension of the todo.txt spec.

Features

  • todo.txt and done.txt syntax highlighting
  • Extended support for documents with custom extensions: .todo, .shop, .list
  • Highlighting for todo lists, shopping lists and general checklists
  • Priorities, contexts, projects and tags based on the todo.txt spec
  • Additional support for hashtags and a (currently limited) range of prices (for shopping lists)
  • Experimental support for subtasks/nested todos

Known Issues

None. Let me know if you identify any.

Release Notes

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0.0.3

Initial release of Toodles VS Code

0.0.4

  • Additional date colors to differentiate between created date, due date and completed date
  • Improved regex to identify priority (e.g. (A)) only near start of string

0.0.5

  • Added focus and obsolete status for list items; these can be marked by a ! or ~ at the start of the line

0.0.6

  • Added multiplier highlighting for shopping list items

0.0.7

  • Fixes some false positives when matching tags at the beginning or end of a string

0.0.8

  • Adds support for use of hyphen (-) at the beginning of line for alignment with focus, done and obsolete tasks

0.0.9

  • Adds support for currency ranges in shopping lists of the format $10.00-$50.00

0.0.10

  • Fixes custom tag regex: now matches non-whitespace characters instead of non-space literal, preventing match with newline

0.0.11

  • Stricter matching of custom tags (tag:custom) to prevent matching URL strings and valid Markdown link syntax
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