Hi again,
"Most of the tools I know have this clever feature." No, they haven't, I fear, but those that have, it's a splendour, I know. In fact, 100 p.c. on your side, and indeed, that has been on my list to "sell" to Petko.
Since you speak about AS here and of coexistence of the two programs on your pc, have a look into my posts where I say that indeed, for special needs, MI at this time has no chance to substitute AS - it has been for that reason that I told people here (and in the AS forum where nobody knew / shared the info) AS was - and is - downloadable for free:
Indeed, if MI wants to REPLACE AS in its core functionality, Petko couldn't bear it / us anymore, so I thought, let's optimize MI together, step by step, very calmly, without any pressure to implement too much things that are too difficult to encode in a minimum of time - why not simple use AS for some things, when in fact for 90 p.c. of our work, MI is / will soon be perfect even without those AS features yet?!
Just try the MI feature "Search in all loaded files" - ok, it's ugly that there's not yet any arrow scrolling in the search results pane, and it's not that handy that you can very well have displayed the first lines of the relevant items, but not the immediate context of the (first) find in the item (= as in AS)... but this will be - and has to be - amended rather soon. But even now, this search is functioning rather well, and quick, and you even have some sort of a (2-level) outlining in the search results: topics (= even collapsible, that is), and then items.
This is not to say MI search capabilities are on par with AS's yet, but in everyday life - and I'd tried to communicate this at the AS site once -, MI search capabilities, when lesser than AS's, are quite as good as those, i.d. the aforementioned 2 points could be enhanced, and for the rest, well, searching in search results, of course, but then, I developed this thoroughly weeks ago, explaining that as a first step, searching has to be integrated into tagging, or the other way round, and then, even searching within search results - or any other sub-group of items, over many topics at once, will be really easy!
It's really an architectural problem, not creating spaghetti code for 100 dissociated functions here and there... and the MI I've got in my mind, is a splendid thing.
Let's say that AS's linking is awful, terrible, aghasting; but 100 p.c. on your side, MI's one needs to be enhanced. I'm just putting into relation for some intermediate months...
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