''' ... but how does one maintain a 2180 line file easily? I find these to be very difficult to grep and grok, even if I am the author of the entire file. '''

''' ... but how does one maintain a 2180 line file easily? I find these to be very difficult to grep and grok, even if I am the author of the entire file. ''' not sure about others, but i am using emacs with various tools f.e. for c++ these days, clangd as lsp-server, for c (long time ago) it was mostly cscope (via xcscope.el iirc) etc. etc.