specialunderwear/Hosts.prefpane

[Request] Add notes section

tylervick opened this issue · 2 comments

tylervick commented

I love this application, it made work on my team much more efficient for manipulation of our hosts files that we often change.

It'd be great if there was a way to just add notes to the entries in the prefpane, or possibly interpret comments from the host file. Though the former would be simpler, it'd be a useful addition to this already fantastic application.

specialunderwear commented

So I thought about this and this feature will not make it in Hosts.prefpane. Ofcourse there are workflows conceivable where it would be good to have notes with your hosts entries. But Hosts.prefpane is not about workflows, it is a GUI to your hosts file.

Parsing comments and desciding to which host entry they belong is very difficult, which is why Hosts.prefpane makes no attempt at associating them with any entry.

Now it could be that you require modifications to hosts.prefpane to support your workflow. Feel free to fork and make those modifications. If you encounter difficulties I am happy to assist.