README

• Summary
• Install
  • Installing the Emacs Interface Mode
• Features
• Usage
  • Mulit-line
  • Filter keyword
  • Ignore with keyword
  • Excluding some folder
  • Expand json file
  • Local arguments
  • Delete the crumbs
  • Restore the crumbs
  • Run format after clean the crumbs
  • Output to different format of files

Other Versions (have some features different):

• code_it_later_ml ocaml version
• code-it-later clojure version
• code_it_later_hs haskell version

Summary

Make flags in source code where may have problems or can be optimized. codeitlater help you track this flags and fix them in future.

Install

cargo install code-it-later-rs

Installing the Emacs Interface Mode

I developed the helm-code-it-later, which serves as an interface mode for my Emacs.

Features

• get comments in source code
• get comments depending on different key words
• get comments in special path of dir or files
• can expand to other languages

Languages support now:

• rs
• go
• lisp
• py
• hs
• el
• clj
• js

If you wanna expand other languages, check expand json file

Usage

Write code as usual. The comment line that you want to leave mark in, left := symbol after comment symbol.

Then run codeitlater command in terminal get those crumbs back.

For example:

Golang:

// /user/src/main.go
// test codeitlater
//:= this line can be read by codeitlater
//:= MARK: you can left keyword to marked comment line
/*:= mutil lines comments
*/

then run codeitlater in code root path

You will get:

|-- /user/src/main.go
  |-- Line 3: this line can be read by codeitlater
  |-- Line 4: MARK: you can left keyword to marked comment line
  |-- Line 5: mutil lines comments

Python:

# /src/main.py
# this line wont be read
#:= this line for codeitlater
print("aaa") ###:= this line can be read again

Run codeitlater /path/to/this_py.py.

You will get:

|-- /src/main.py
  |-- Line 3: this line for codeitlater"
  |-- Line 4: this line can be read again"

Give specify file type

codeitlater -f clj

You will get result only from clojure.

codeitlater -f clj -f py

Then results both of clojure and python will return.

codeitlater -f clj -f py /path/to/file /path/to/dir

Mulit-line

When one line ending with ..., then, the next line will add to this crumb. Also, you can make tail chain for this.

For example:

//:= line1...
//:= , and line2...
//:= line3 with line2...

//:= line4 is diffrent...
//:= with line5
//:= line6

Will give you:

  |-- Line 1: line1 , and line2 line3 with line2...
  |-- Line 4: line4 is diffrent with line5
  |-- Line 6: line6

Filter keyword

Keyword format is Keyword: with a space after.

Filter keyword (use -k be keyword flag, check out more flags by -h):

codeitlater -k MARK

You will get:

|-- /user/src/main.go
  |-- Line 4: MARK: you can left keyword to marked comment line

Same format as filetypes, if you want get two keywords together:

codeitlater -k TODO --keywords MARK

CAUTION: if keywords and multi-lines are mixed, multi-lines feature has higher priority.

Example:

//:= TODO: aaaa...
//:= bbb...
//:= MARK: ccc

Both codeitlater and codeitlater -k TODO are showing

|-- Line 1: TODO: aaaa bbb MARK: ccc

codeitlater -k MARK will show nothing.

Ignore with keyword

This is the special feature I use in my work. For example:

//:= !JIRA-123: hello world
//:= line2

The first line "hello world" will be ignore because it start with '!'. To show this line is give the keyword JIRA-123 like codeitlater -k JIRA-123

Or give the --show-ignored true if you want to show everything, like codeitlater --show-ignored true.

Excluding some folder

codeitlater -x vendor will ignore all files in vendor (recursively).

Expand json file

Check tests/test.json, if you run codeitlater -j ./tests/test.json, the "rs" in codeitlater's dictionary will be covered by new value in test.json. Other languages are keep same.

Local arguments

codeitlater will look for {$PWD}/.codeitlater file to pre-load arguments. If any arguments those been given in command line, also set inside the .codeitlater file, will be rewrote by command line arguments (except ignore dirs (-x), ignore dirs configs located inside .codeitlater file and given in command line will merge together).

Delete the crumbs

codeitlater -D target gonna clean all crumbs inside the files in the target folder. Delete will give prompt interaction, which has y/n/s/i options. y means delete the bread/crumbs it just shows; n means ignore this; s means show, just re-print it again; i going to interact mode, show bread one by one or crumb one by one.

You can delete special keywords with codeitlater -D -k TODO. Generally, -D handle after normal codeitlater workflow done.

Restore the crumbs

Like the delete feature prompt, but this feature restore the crumb left inside the code to normal comments.

//:= here

will restore to

// here

Run format after clean the crumbs

After clean some crumbs inside files, you might need some format after it. You can give the --fmt options let codeitlater run the command given after clean.

For example:

codeitlater -D --fmt "go fmt" . will delete your crumbs and run the go fmt. The command after --fmt has to be the standalone command.

As all other options, you can add it inside the local {$PWD}/.codeitlater.

Output to different format of files

-O/--output-format can output the crumbs in specific format.

Support format:

• json
• list

Example:

codeitlater -O json .