[texhax] Numbering/labeling verbatim code segments in a document

[Christopher Bourke]

> Since I am copying these code segments to proper source
> files and testing them, I would like to:
>
> 1) Have them numbered/identified as <chapter>.<segment>
>   in the text
> 2) Have them captioned with a short description of what
>   they do so that I could have the equivalent of a
>   table of figures that meaningfully lists the code
>   snippets, where they are in the text and the description

...

> some of the code environments - but none seem to do quite the right
> thing.

When you say some of the code environments, have you also tried using the 
listings package?  If that's not enough, you may need to define your own 
floating body environment.