Lately, as I’ve been working on a huge Zend Framework library for rapid website development and content management, as well as the second version of my ASRA framework, I’ve been very into using Soryu’s TextMate TODO plugin. Trouble is, when you have the entire Zend library in your project (or any other huge library), you’re bound to have a ton of todo’s in your list that you don’t really “care” about.

Anyway, I just learned a super easy way to speed up and make things easier to maintain. Simply open the TextMate preferences menu and go to Advanced > Shell Variables. Add a new entry called TM_TODO_IGNORE and give it a value of Zend* (or even just Zend should work). The TM_TODO_IGNORE value just specifies a regular expression for files paths to ignore within your project, so basically this just ignores everything in the Zend library. Yay! Concise to-do list!