Highlighting of special code comment types like TODO, INFO, etc.

[adiepenbrock]

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Describe the feature

One feature that I find really useful in other editors, e.g., Neovim with the plugin "folke/todo-comments," is the ability to highlight specific types of comments like // TODO // INFO and others. This feature enhances productivity by making it easier to locate and manage important comments within the codebase when scrolling / jumping through the code.

Because there may be users who don't want this kind of highlights in the code, it should be configurable by the user (activate / deactivate, configure highlighting color or deriving it from the used theme, etc.)

There is already a feature request (#4808) to introduce a separate tree-structure overview of these comments. However, I think this should also be available in the code itself.

If applicable, add mockups / screenshots to help present your vision of the feature

[francesco-gaglione]

I'm considering to work on this. Some instructions on how to do it? Colours for example. And is it still needed?

[diogox]

I don't know about the color requirements, but any implementation would probably be a good start. I use this every day in other editors and find it very useful :)

[francesco-gaglione]

I readed somewhere that this should be done zed extensions and not in the core codebase. It is still true or we want to consider to implement it in the core?

[kofron]

@francesco-gaglione did you wind up taking a stab at this?

[francesco-gaglione]

@kofron I need first the confirmation from mainteiners to do this into zed core and not in the plugins

[everdrone]

There is this open issue: https://github.com/zed-industries/extensions/issues/523 where the direction was to implement it as an extension.