[💡 Feature]: Allow Todos to be automatically added

[christian-bromann]

Is your feature request related to a problem?

Currently users can add todos when there is a Todo: ... somewhere in the code, e.g.:

However it is difficult to see all of those places without scanning through all files.

Describe the solution you'd like.

We could add an option to the todo widget that defines whether Marquee should automatically add todos in all workspace files. In case this config is enabled we display these todos and automatically remove them once someone removes the todo in the code.

Describe alternatives you've considered.

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[CodingWithDavidZ]

If I could piggy back on this, being able to also click the TODO in marquee and jump to the spot its referenced would be nice. If this is not possible, having it append a filename would be nice as well.

[christian-bromann]

@CodingWithDavidZ thanks for the feedback. Actually we had this working for notes and snippets

which for some reasons I am currently not able to reproduce (could be a bug) but I believe I added this for Todos too.

[christian-bromann]

which for some reasons I am currently not able to reproduce (could be a bug) but I believe I added this for Todos too.

@CodingWithDavidZ Ok, it seemed that the extension didn't fully upgrade and I was still seeing an old version. If you select a text snippet you should see "Add Selection to Todos" which then links the todo to the file where you captured it from:

[christian-bromann]

This is blocked on microsoft/vscode#59921. There are APIs available to leverage the search mechanism of VSCode for this kind of purpose. However this API needs to be enabled through enabledApiProposals which means we only could release this to insiders users only. I suggest to keep this on the back burner until the API has reached a stable status.