Verbatim lines need some sort of special identification (currently =v followed by whitespace) to allow processed lines to begin in some column other than 0.

I don't like that. It will be a bear to use, unless your editor handles that for you.

'^.*#\s*ifdef\s+pod\b'
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That will find a #ifdef pod anywhere on the line, even with other stuff on it. In C, the # has to be the first non-whitespace character on a line, and it won't tolerate stuff after the expression other than whitespace and comments. In fact /^.*/ seems kind of silly, since the two cancel out. If it's not anchored to the front, you don't need to skip stuff! I think you wanted /^\s*# .../.

I like the idea of embedding extraction details for known languages, to encourage standardization, but still allow it to be customized.

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