vim: is there a plugin to show all of your TODO tags in source?

Question

Like most of you, I work in several source files of code every day. A lot of the time, my insane work flow has me doing stuff like:

# TODO
# clean up this code
# do something else with this code

Is there currently a vim plugin available that will search for TODO or a similar mnemonic and print a list of my current tasks that are on-going and in what source file it needs to be done? It would be a huge time saver instead of using grep constantly. Also with vim ctags, you can jump right in the code where you left the TODO off at.

Answer 1

I've not tried it (yet), but this plugin looks promising.

Edit: I've just tried this plugin out. I will be keeping it around. It's very handy and interactively moves you around the buffer while you navigate the task list.

Also, there is a mirror on github if you use pathogen or another means of git submodules for your vim directory.

Answer 2

When you say grep, are you talking about grep from the command line, or :grep in vim? The latter allows you to view a quickfix list of matches and jump to them. If typing out :grep TODO -r . becomes cumbersome you could easily map that operation to a hotkey.

Answer 3

You can also use a tool like http://srcoftruth.com to track your TODOs using github issues. If you're already checking your code in it's pretty convenient.