Comments on: What’s on my TODO list? http://blogs.mathworks.com/desktop/2008/03/17/whats-on-my-todo-list/ Mike works on the MATLAB Desktop team Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:02:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Mike http://blogs.mathworks.com/desktop/2008/03/17/whats-on-my-todo-list/#comment-6954 Mike Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:56:22 +0000 http://blogs.mathworks.com/desktop/2008/03/17/whats-on-my-todo-list/#comment-6954 @Oliver, Thanks for the feedback. We're always looking to make our tools easier to use and more discoverable. @Dave, Including subfolders is on our radar as a future enhancement for all the reports. You can bring up the Todo/Fixme report for the current folder with the <tt>DOFIXRPT</tt> command. @Oliver,

Thanks for the feedback. We’re always looking to make our tools easier to use and more discoverable.

@Dave,
Including subfolders is on our radar as a future enhancement for all the reports. You can bring up the Todo/Fixme report for the current folder with the DOFIXRPT command.

]]> By: Dave Gittins http://blogs.mathworks.com/desktop/2008/03/17/whats-on-my-todo-list/#comment-6947 Dave Gittins Mon, 29 Mar 2010 12:28:09 +0000 http://blogs.mathworks.com/desktop/2008/03/17/whats-on-my-todo-list/#comment-6947 Hi Mike, I think this feature is great... if all your code is in one directory! I cannot fathom why the designers of this feature did not support subdirectories. If the report had options to include all subdirectories (or even custom paths) it would be useful. As it is, I would have to go through a manual process directory by directory to find all the TODOs, which makes it useless for me and probably many others. Similarly, the MATLAB philosophy seems to be to allow everything to be achievable from m-code but only 95% of the time. It would be good to be able to do this kind of report from m-code. Of course that's not too hard by writing your own but the flexibility to have these reports auto-generate would be good. Hi Mike, I think this feature is great… if all your code is in one directory! I cannot fathom why the designers of this feature did not support subdirectories. If the report had options to include all subdirectories (or even custom paths) it would be useful. As it is, I would have to go through a manual process directory by directory to find all the TODOs, which makes it useless for me and probably many others.

Similarly, the MATLAB philosophy seems to be to allow everything to be achievable from m-code but only 95% of the time. It would be good to be able to do this kind of report from m-code. Of course that’s not too hard by writing your own but the flexibility to have these reports auto-generate would be good.

]]> By: Oliver A. Chapman, P.E. http://blogs.mathworks.com/desktop/2008/03/17/whats-on-my-todo-list/#comment-3687 Oliver A. Chapman, P.E. Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:57:57 +0000 http://blogs.mathworks.com/desktop/2008/03/17/whats-on-my-todo-list/#comment-3687 A few months ago, I attempted to use this feature for the first time, but couldn't remember what the key word was to make a "To Do" or "Fix Me" entry. I spent ~20 minutes surfing the documentation and found good documentation about how to generate the report, after I had populated the code with the appropriate key words followed by my meaningful text. I called your technical support and it took them ~10 minutes to answer it. I've just glanced at the help system and it appears that this release retains that poor documentation about how to actually make a "To Do" entry. Am I right? A few months ago, I attempted to use this feature for the first time, but couldn’t remember what the key word was to make a “To Do” or “Fix Me” entry. I spent ~20 minutes surfing the documentation and found good documentation about how to generate the report, after I had populated the code with the appropriate key words followed by my meaningful text.

I called your technical support and it took them ~10 minutes to answer it.

I’ve just glanced at the help system and it appears that this release retains that poor documentation about how to actually make a “To Do” entry. Am I right?

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