[Feature Request]: highlight author in TODO(author):

[elianiva]

It's quite common for a TODO to have an author, I was using treesitter comment parser and it can highlight the author name inside the parentheses. Currently I use both to make this happen but it would be cool if this plugin can do that as well, thanks! :)

here's a reference:

[folke]

Sounds like a great idea. I'll add it to the list :)

[goncalves-diogo]

Hi, i've looked in these problem because i really needed the feature and I've developed regex to get to a result similar to what you expect i think.

In this image you can see the result i got:

I got the previous result with the following property on setup:

require("todo-comments").setup {
    highlight = {
      before = "", -- "fg" or "bg" or empty
      keyword = "bg", -- "fg", "bg", "wide" or empty. (wide is the same as bg, but will also highlight surrounding characters)
      after = "fg", -- "fg" or "bg" or empty
      pattern = [[.*<(KEYWORDS)(\([^\)]*\))?:]],
      comments_only = true, -- uses treesitter to match keywords in comments only
      max_line_len = 400, -- ignore lines longer than this
      exclude = {}, -- list of file types to exclude highlighting
    },
    search = {
        command = "rg",
        args = {
            "--color=never",
            "--no-heading",
            "--with-filename",
            "--line-number",
            "--column",
        },
        pattern = [[\b(KEYWORDS)(\([^\)]*\))?:]],
    },
}

[knpwrs]

I think there has been a change to the highlighting logic to swallow the :, or whatever character comes after the keyword, because this is what I see with the custom regex solution:

That text is:

TODO: foobar
TODO(kp): delete the below once ...

[Daniele122898]

Is there a less hacky and more supported way of doing this then without stuff being swallowed?

[dav1d-wright]

bumping this feature request because I am also looking for a way to do this. If there is any way I can help, let me know 🙂

[Rukenshia]

just stumbled across this while trying to figure out how to achieve it - would love to see this be a feature out of the box

[GoNZooo]

I can confirm that this is fixed by #180

[alexmozaidze]

It'd be nice if #180 was merged into the master branch

[ynhhoJ]

I have created a fork with the latest changes and added support for highlighting from #180 MR.

You can find it here: https://github.com/ynhhoJ/todo-comments.nvim

I will delete my fork once the main repository will merge these changes into the master branch.

Feel free to use!

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[bluebrown]

For completeness. It works now like this as shown in the PR.

require("todo-comments").setup({
  search = { pattern = [[\b(KEYWORDS)(\([^\)]*\))?:]] },
  highlight = { pattern = [[.*<((KEYWORDS)%(\(.{-1,}\))?):]] },
})