Support for TODO Priority

[imperez]

I was thinking it would be good to have some sort of support for priority in TODOs. I was thinking when you write a TODO you do something like this:

TODO: (HIGH) This is a very important todo

TODO: (HIGH) This is another very important todo

TODO: (LOW) This is a not so important todo

Then when you list your TODOs the list would be organized with priority in mind.

TODO (3)

HIGH

1. This is a very important todo
2. This is a very important todo

LOW

1. This is a not so important todo

It would help give more of an idea of what TODO should be focused on more especially as the file gets large.

[erinata]

I think you can put

"patterns":
{
    "TODO(HIGH)": "TODO\\(HIGH\\)[\\s]*?:+(?P<todohigh>.*)$",
    "TODO(LOW)": "TODO\\(LOW\\)[\\s]*?:+(?P<todolow>.*)$"
}

Into the Preferences.sublime-settings file.

In this sense you can have

# TODO(HIGH): This is a very important todo
# TODO(HIGH): This is another very important todo
# TODO(LOW): This is a not so important todo

And it will yield

## TODOHIGH (1)
1. This is a very important todo
2. This is another very important todo

## TODOLOW (1)
1. This is a not so important todo

Not exactly the pattern you want but as the pattern you require is overlapping with the original TODO pattern, I cannot overwrite it.

( However I am not using them because typing (HIGH) and (LOW) is too much typing for me. I would rather use the pattern "TODO\\![\\s]*?:+(?P<todoimportant>.*)$", which response to #TODO!: this is an important task. I am just lazy :P )

robcowie: Would it be possible to move the "core task" in your python file to the sublime settings file? So people can totally redefine all tasks without modifying your python code?

[imperez]

Great idea. I'll use that method since it does work as a good compromise. Thanks!

[Jamesking56]

I would really love this feature too