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Convert regular variables to Task/Profile/Project variables and add indication they exist

Convert regular variables to Task/Profile/Project variables - Something similar to if blocks.

Having some kind of indication that there are variables Task/Profile/Project - Sometimes coming back to an old project you don't remember if you had your variables as a Task/Profile/Project.

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For Globals it's not so bad because you can see them in the Vars tab which pulls in any project referenced globals.

Where it gets murky is I don't think this Vars tab was ever updated to reflect Profile and Project level vars since they came after (iirc).

One solution might be to expand that Vars tab to have an additional column (with the additional filter) for the type of var (Global, Profile, Project). Profile type might need the reference profile added. 

It's the one reason I still use mostly globals and locals, since project level is hard to trace out (there's also no Test Tasker -> Project Variables function). Sure, you can view them in the Project stats, but they get clunky.

And while we're there, a helpful QoL improvement on the Vars view would be to make it so that clicking on a variable key_name would popup a small box of that entire name with a "copy" button (to copy the var_name to clipboard as %var_name), this would work in tandem with the current action of clicking the key_value and getting the same (the value + copy/clear actions).

Longer names get truncated. Or make it so the columns can be resized/horizontal scrolled.