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If you have TODO outside of comments which are false positives, you need to see those, and weed them out along with the true TODO items.

This TODO scanner project is completely, utterly, pointless.

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There is no need for your second line. Your first line is a valid, relevant opinion. The second one has no use but to belittle the OP (or anyone else who has written a TODO scanner). You're being a dick, and missing the forest for the trees while you're at it. This project can be integrated into a larger gulp workflow, for example. It also has the ability to write the output to custom formats.

;) I'm in no way offended. I guess kazinator is spending his time much better than me. But anyway, if anyone is more comfortable using CLI (or any IDE that provides this) with grep/ack/ag/pt and that solves parsing todos for him, that's great. I would only use Leasot if you need easy integration with other tools (think JSONs/XML), want to trim down false positives (such as variable names, strings etc...).

There are probably other use cases, but overall, if cli regex works great for you, stick with it.

Regarding if Leasot is pointless or not, well everyone is entitled to their own opinion (kazinator). In the greater sense I guess the world needs more todo doers than todo parsers ;)

I see, I can build a cloud-powered dashboard to give my mobile workforce a semantically-enhanced visibility into the proliferation of TODO comments throughout the enterprise, integrated into the social networking applications they already use.

TODO comments could automatically be turned into action items, against the developer who introduced them (git blame!)

The software could be intelligent enough to uncover relationships among the TODO's, and schedule a meeting for specific subsets of TODO's, calling in all the relevant peo^H^H^H stake holders.

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