AVR-Chat

I have a suggestion, to make something very tedious, and yet very 
important, much less of a problem..

Frequently, you end up with a register (or ram location) filled with bit 
flags doing inter-task signalling.
So, you end up with something like this in your comments:

;
;Burn Flags (register) Definitions
;00XX XXXX Unused
;XX1X XXXX Head loaded
;XXX1 XXXX Head latched
;XXXX 0XXX Unused
;0000 01XX 1= Four-Burn, 0 = two-burn
;XXXX XXYY Burn state 0-3 or 0-1
;
.equ	Head_Loaded	= 5	;
.equ	Head_Latched	= 4 	;		
.equ	Four_Burn	= 2	;
;
;Step Flags (register) Definitions:	
;0XXX XXXX Disabled
;X1XX XXXX 1 = Burn in progress
;XX0X XXXX Unused
;XXX0 XXXX 1 = too cold
;XXXX 1XXX Step in progress
;XXXX X1XX Step enabled (by Latch)
;XXXX XX00 Unused
;
.equ	Step_Disabled		= 7	;Head/Paper sensors
.equ	Step_BIP		= 6 	;T2 running
.equ	Step_Cold		= 4	;Temperature
.equ	Step_In_Progress	= 3	;Start_Step
.equ	Step_Enabled		= 2	;By Latch

This, by itself, isn't a problem.
However, by their very nature, these flags are used anywhere and everywhere.
So you end up having a bunch of copies of the definitions everywhere.
Now the problem begins.

What happens when I need a new flag, or need to change the definition of a 
flag?
I have to go hunt down every copy of this comment block, everywhere in the 
code (multiple files) and update them.
This is very tedious, and very error prone.

What I would like to see, is "hover help" where I can select register/ram 
bytes to include in this help.
What happens is that I define a master comment block somewhere, and assign 
that to a variable name.
Now any time that I hover over this variable name, the comment field pops up.
If I right click on an active variable, then I can edit the master comment 
field, without having to go open the file over there.

This is an html-like kind of thing and requires a little thought to 
implement, but I think it will make everyone's lives easier.