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Re: Word style review "comments"
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Re: Word style review "comments"


  • Subject: Re: Word style review "comments"
  • From: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2015 17:27:49 -0700


On Jun 1, 2015, at 4:18 PM, Luther Baker <email@hidden> wrote:

Does anyone know if Xcode does this? or, does a plugin for Xcode do this? Or ... does a separate tool altogether do this that I could leave open just to add and read my meta comments?

Nope. Source files are plain text, so there’s no place to store such comments (except, literally, as source-code comments in the text, which contradicts what you want.)

(Sure, they could go into a side file or xattr metadata, but without any stable way to identify where in the file they go, their locations in the file would get messed up as soon as it were edited by a tool other than the one that manages the comments, or if you pulled Git/SVN changes to the file made by another user.)

—Jens

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