Eclipse Tasks View - how to customize markers?

StackOverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23529981

  •  17-07-2023
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Question

The Eclipse Tasks (and Code Markers) seems elusively challenging to customize.

Question

How do you add custom tags to the Tasks filter? e.g. maybe I want to add "Super-Bug" or something.

Example

Currently I know empirically that you can use todo, fixme & xxx; and they are case-insentive. here is example.

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This is one of those questions you would think should take 1min + Google-Searching + Manual; but then eventually after 10minutes you give up.

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Solution

Yes you can add your custom task tags. Click Window > Preferences. Go to C/C++ > Task Tags. You will get a preference page as shown below.

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Note that you can choose Case sensitive task as shown in pic in point no 7.

After adding your tag. Crate a C project and try to add this tags in c or cpp file. Example shown below. enter image description here

Note:

  1. You can add task manually by right clicking on the line number column of an editor and choosing Add task... option. These task will appear in Task category as shown above.

  2. Task added in c/cpp editors will appear in C/C++ category

  3. In Task view menu choose Group by type.

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