Improvement Request: Customizable Keyword for "TODO" Marker

[LU1ZINH0]

Currently, SysReptor automatically flags the keyword TODO (or todo) as a pending item, which is a very useful feature for reviews and annotations. However, in non-English contexts, this can create false positives.

For example, in Portuguese the word "todos" (meaning "all") contains todo, which unintentionally triggers the pending marker. Similar issues may also occur in other languages where todo appears as part of a normal word but has no relation to the "to-do" concept.

Suggested Improvement:
Allow the TODO marker keyword to be customizable (e.g., via configuration or project settings). This would let users adapt it to their preferred language or choose a unique marker (such as @@TODO@@ or another keyword), reducing false positives while keeping the feature flexible across different languages.

Benefit:

• Improves multilingual support.
• Prevents incorrect flagging in languages like Portuguese, Spanish, etc.
• Provides users with more control over their workflow.

[MWedl]

Hi, thanks for reporting. False positive TODOs can be quite annoying.

I'm not a fan of introducing a setting for TODO markers because of severals reasons:

• does not work out-of-the box: Every user has to enable/configure the setting independently on their SysReptor instance. Before that they have to get annoyed by TODO parsing and discover that such a setting exists.
• local setting per instance: TODO marker configurations are local per SysReptor instance. When projects or designs are exported and imported to other instances, this might lead to differencens in TODO highlighting. This also affects project warnings, which might result in some TODOs being undetected and published in the final report.

I suggest a different solution: Case-sensitive TODO highlighting

From your description, the main problem is highlighting of lowercase todo (and maybe Todo at start of sentences). Uppercase TODO, To-Do and ToDo are not affected, right? Therefor I suggest to only highlight these three variants and no longer highlight lowercase TODOs. Feedback on this assumption would be great, because I don't speak Portuguese nor Spanish.

[LU1ZINH0]

Thank you for your reply.

Yes, you are correct. Only with lowercase or capital letters (todo/todos) and (Todo/Todos), which are part of the Brazilian dictionary.