Sublime Text 3 (http://www.sublimetext.com/3), the IDE of my choice, has the great feature of plugins that can be used to extend the editors capabilities using package control (https://packagecontrol.io/).

Some of the interesting front-end plugins give you the possibility to quickly find code snippets via a live-search form within the editor.
E.g., there is a great plugin for jQuery: https://packagecontrol.io/packages/jQuery

Why not start a similar plugin for CouchCMS as an open-source project on GitHub?

Considering the amount of variables and tags available, this would really speed up development.