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I recently decided to reinstall some of my IDEs as i wanted to get a clear installations. I re-downloaded Pycharm and IntelliJ (community version) and found out that the "TODO" and "FIXME" tag highlighting doesn't work anymore. The IDEs find the TODOs (i.e. when I go to the "TODO" tab I can see them), but they are not highlighted within the code itself.

  • I checked the settings, and the patterns are all right (if they weren't it wouldn't find the TODOs anyways).
  • I checked the color settings and they are set to be bold and orange.

With all of that in mind, the TODOs still look like regular comments on both IDEs and I find it difficult.

Image of the situation (FIXME not highlighting in code, looking like regular comment right after it, but it is recognize in the TODO tab):

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Image of the TODO patterns in the settings tab:

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Image of the coloring settings: enter image description here

Help would really be appreciated! :)

ChocolateBear
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  • What is the file extension? Can you reproduce it in all the file types? – CrazyCoder Apr 14 '21 at 20:06
  • It doesn't work in IntelliJ with Java files, but does work with .py files. It doesn't work in Pycharm with .py files, but works with java files. I'm even more confused haha :) – ChocolateBear Apr 14 '21 at 20:20
  • We can't reproduce it: https://i.imgur.com/jee92P3.png. Does it work with the default TODO pattern? Does it help if you start with the default settings: File | Manage IDE Settings | Restore Default Settings...: https://i.imgur.com/kbrkC7w.png? Does the issue occur in the current 2021.1 release? – CrazyCoder Apr 14 '21 at 20:22
  • Doesn't work with the TODO pattern. I restored the default settings and it didn't help. (And its 2021.1 release) – ChocolateBear Apr 14 '21 at 20:26
  • Is there any reason for IntelliJ not to recognize Java files properly? Or for pycharm to not recognize python files? – ChocolateBear Apr 14 '21 at 20:27
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    One of the reasons would be https://stackoverflow.com/a/43319356/104891. If the file doesn't belong to a project (is located outside of the project roots and source roots), it will not be parsed). – CrazyCoder Apr 14 '21 at 20:28
  • Solved the issue thanks to you, it didn't recognize the Java files because I'm a fool and didn't put them into a module accidentally... wasted hours. How can I gift you for helping me? – ChocolateBear Apr 14 '21 at 20:29
  • Let us [continue this discussion in chat](https://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/231146/discussion-between-chocolatebear-and-crazycoder). – ChocolateBear Apr 14 '21 at 20:29

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