--- title: "Routine Auto-Locator" type: "article" slug: "routine-auto-locator" url: "http://localhost/article/routine-auto-locator/" markdown_url: "http://localhost/article/routine-auto-locator.md" published_at: "2026-02-08T17:00:43+00:00" modified_at: "2026-02-08T17:00:44+00:00" featured_image: url: "http://localhost/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/20230809-041332.jpg" excerpt: "Have you ever, in the course of developing a moderately complex SuperBasic program, found yourself scrolling madly up and down through multitudinous lines in search of the routine that currently needed modification ? I have, and it can be annoying, to say the least." category: - name: "International QL Report" slug: "international-ql-report" taxonomy: "category" url: "http://localhost/category/periodicals/international-ql-report/" post_tag: - name: "QL" slug: "ql" taxonomy: "post_tag" url: "http://localhost/tag/ql/" - name: "Superbasic (programming language)" slug: "superbasic-programming-language" taxonomy: "post_tag" url: "http://localhost/tag/superbasic-programming-language/" - name: "Type-in program" slug: "type-in-program" taxonomy: "post_tag" url: "http://localhost/tag/type-in-program/" model: - name: "Sinclair QL" slug: "sinclair-ql" taxonomy: "model" url: "http://localhost/model/sinclair-ql/" indiv: - name: "Mel E. LaVerne" slug: "m-e-laverne" taxonomy: "indiv" url: "http://localhost/indiv/m-e-laverne/" publication_r: id: 33740 title: "International QL Report" type: "periodical" url: "http://localhost/periodical/international-ql-report/" authors_r: - name: "Mel E. LaVerne" slug: "m-e-laverne" taxonomy: "indiv" url: "http://localhost/indiv/m-e-laverne/" volume: "4" issue: "1" issues_articles: - id: 37220 title: "International QL Report V4 I1" type: "issue" url: "http://localhost/issue/international-ql-report-v4-i1/" pages: "53" pubdate: "May/June 1994" archive_link: false --- # Routine Auto-Locator Have you ever, in the course of developing a moderately complex SuperBasic program, found yourself scrolling madly up and down through multitudinous lines in search of the routine that currently needed modification ? I have, and it can be annoying, to say the least.