If you're finding that having a good number of shaders in the materials files for the games you edit are getting the better of you because of having to constantly scroll up and down a sometimes very long page, then try the following tip.
At the very top of the file add a section into which you copy the most frequently used shader references, making sure they're commented out so the don't break the scripts below. Doing this will allow you to do a simply copy/paste of these items without trying to track a reference further down the file.
If you're doing a lot of work with models, ASE for example, all you need to is copy from "//q4base...." to the end of each line into the *BITMAP ref of the ASE and your done.
//SHADER REFERENCES
//paths used for ASE map objects
//q4base/textures/kat_q4dm2/lava_decal
//q4base/textures/kat_q4dm2/lava_top
//q4base/textures/kat_q4dm2/lava
//q4base/textures/kat_q4dm2/stone_mix
//q4base/textures/kat_q4dm2/slab_mix
//----------------------------
//SHADERS
//q4base/textures/kat_q4dm2/floor_v1 //path to add to models
textures/kat_q4dm2/floor_v1
....
...
[shaders would continue below]
