My application, full of global variables, is creeping toward 3000 lines, and I'm finding that I'm using repetitive comments for many instances of some variable names to remind me of interdependencies. I find this much easier than referring to a long block of comments before each edit. I've substituted brief comments that say "see label XXX" for some full comments and I've labeled the full comments so I could search for them fairly easily, but some comments have web addresses of relevant information, which I have to navigate to using a browser. I thought of a better way to handle this, but it would require a custom editor.

If I ever have the time, I might look into customizing an open source editor to make it scroll to the part of the code that contains the label that's clicked in a comment. Clicking the label that you were brought to would bring you back. The editor would also open a window that displays a text version of a web page or local file when I click its address in a comment.

I'd also like the scroll bar's track, or whatever it's called, to be numbered and allow me to click a number to highlight it so I'd know where to scroll to get back to a certain part of the script. A vertical tab feature would serve a similar purpose.

In reply to Perl editor idea by Wassercrats

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