ToDo List Toolbar (Updated for SE2017/SE2019)

[LBCEi]

The "Alternate TDML" regex used to (in SE2014 and earlier) pick up the stuff to the right of the colon and put it into the Description field.

[Clark]

Ah..you have to toggle that option on.

[Clark]

The problem with the regex was the expression ":b*" and ":b@". Previously this worked and it is currently broken (simple fix).

Having said that, :b was really a bad idea for a built-in regex because it gets incorrectly used. Too bad is too late to change that. It's being incorrectly used in this regex. :b actually is [ \t]# and not just [ \t]. Putting a loop around a loop is very bad. You really don't want ([ \t]#)*. It makes the regex engine do way to may tries.

[MartyL]

Yeah, I fixed the regex earlier and re-uploaded the original post. I saw the nuance in :b while I was fixing the script earlier.

Hope everything is working better for you now, LBCEi!

[LBCEi]

The version at the top of this thread solved the problems.

Thank you so much Marty (and Clark).

I wonder if the other versions that are scattered throughout the thread could/should be cleaned up (removed) to avoid confusion for future visitors.

Les

[MartyL]

I wonder if the other versions that are scattered throughout the thread could/should be cleaned up (removed) to avoid confusion for future visitors.

Great plan. I just cleaned up my extras throughout. Glad to hear it's working again.

[nghate]

Do we have an updated version of the todo List Tool bar for SE2017? I tried using a version from this thread (ver 0. and it does not seem to load. I am not a pro user so it will take me a while to figure out why it did not load...

[MartyL]

Hey there nghate!

I downloaded 2017 this afternoon and fixed up the macro. You can find a version 1.1 in the first post that should work in 2017 and still be backward compatible. I don't have a Standard Edition license, so I wasn't able to test there. But it is working well in Pro.

[JimS]

This thread has not been updated in a couple years. Does anyone still use this script? Does anyone have an update that works with SE2019?

[LBCEi]

I'm still using it regularly.  If you get the version from the first post in this thread it should work up to the latest version of SE:

https://community.slickedit.com/index.php/topic,6129.msg25274.html#msg25274

[MartyL]

I'll get SE 2019 downloaded to see if there's any issues.