If I understand correctly, you want the ability to embed in comments named anchors and references to those anchors, so that clicking on one of the references automatically locates and displays the corresponding named anchor, right?

Right. I guess I have a longer wait than I thought, since Elisp sounds like the way to do this, and I'd have to learn it. As long as it would also allow me to mark tabs on the scroll bar.

It's so large because it does most of this, though that interface is disabled and under construction. I have 11 subroutines in the script, and everything seems manageable, but a few times I had to look at parts that I hadn't seen for a while and I had to improve the comments. I'm new to programs this large, and I can't say for sure if I handled it the right way.

To some extent, the modularization is what's preventing me from doing all the work with a given variable at once, which is why I need numerous, identical comments in various parts of the script, to remind me of interdependencies of certain variables. For example, I have three arrays that each have to be spliced whenever one of them is, but that's not obvious when working on a routine that deals with only one of them. There are ways to automate that, but they are all more complicated than a simple comment that reminds me. It's essentially complete anyway, and I might be the only one to ever see the code.

And if anyone wants a free, experimental site map by a spider that currently ignores robots.txt, let me know.

In reply to Re: Perl editor idea by Wassercrats
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