I don't think this is currently possible, but I've been wrong before, so
let me ask: I know it is possible to link to individual artifacts by ID
which displays the source, but is it possible to link to a given line
number (range) within a given artifact, perhaps highlighting it in the
process?

My reason for asking: I've been given a new assignment by my employer to
learn / understand some relatively obscure source code written by a former
employee. This is proprietary code that can't be shared outside the
company, but it is not documented (by which I mean there are comments
through the code, but no real design or high level understanding of *why*
it does *what* it does).

My thoughts on how to handle this task (where code is currently stored in
an svn repo and will be migrated in the not too distant future to git) is
to take the current code and import it into a fossil repo, then use the
wiki / inline documentation features to describe it in detail. Part of what
I would like to do in the documentation is link to individual lines or
blocks in the individual source files so that the reference is internally
complete so that I don't have to keep separate source & documentation files
in sync.

Thanks in advance for your help!

-- 
Scott Robison
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