Software Husbandry

[jb]

Often often I find myself working on several or even many documents at one time. In this case I usually turn to Bean because it now has a sidebar that can hold all the open documents. (Yeah, I know about Document Manager and the Window menu item and even CMD-Apostrophe.) But of course I end up missing the Find/Replace options in Nisus, as well as a host of other things that Bean just can’t supply.

So I wondered and studied up a bit on software husbandry. It’s a little-known field that involves a kind of after the fact GMO approach to software. Well I kinda cheated, because I just put my Nisus in a dark room with Bean overnight. I got pretty good results. (You can see what happened below.)

But I thought maybe we could save everyone else the trouble of going through the unfamiliar routines of software husbandry. I mean, you can’t be sure what the offspring will look like, really. And it’s well known that this kind of tinkering with the DNA of fully-formed software can lead to strange life forms, so I’ve decided against doing it in the future. Still, I’m hoping that a mutation of this kind might be coaxed out of Nisus by those licensed to do such things in the laboratory.

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[greenmorpher]

That would be a nice addition. Maybe a panel that could be added to the Tooldrawer?

Best regards

Geoffrey Heard
The Ad-Doctor-Online
http://www.ad-doctor-online.com

[martin]

Ah, you're quite brave and adventurous with your cross-breeding! I don't know if Nisus Writer will acquire this feature (through breeding, mutations, or forbidden science), but it's been requested before. In the meantime, dream wild..