[forwarding] Feature suggestion by Rob Holland

[Shigio YAMAGUCHI]

Hello all, 
Sorry but it seems that I removed a mail as a spam by mistake.
Here is the copy of the mail.

> Subject: Feature suggestion
> From: Rob Holland <address@hidden>
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> Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 22:56:06 +0100
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> Hi,
> 
> It would be really useful if global had the capability to parse a
> ".comments" (or similar random name) file which can refer to symbols
> contained in the source code (or line numbers) and attach comments to
> them.
> 
> This would allow people to share .comments files with extra comments
> about the source, without changing the source at all (which is a real
> pain for diff/readability etc). htags could display these comments
> inline, or maybe as part of the tooltip.
> 
> It would be nice to be able to search for symbols based on pattern
> matches in the comments as well.
> 
> For example:
> 
> global -C TODO
> 
> Or similar, to find comments containing 'TODO', and display the relevant
> file+line information.
> 
> This would really help us when reviewing code, when auditing, for
> example.
> 
> Quite happy to take suggestions as to how you might like this
> implemented so I can take a stab at it. Seems there is no infrastructure
> for this kind of thing yet.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Rob
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> Rob Holland                                 Inverse Path Ltd
> Chief R & D Engineer                        -----> <--------
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> <address@hidden>             http://www.inversepath.com
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