[chimera-dev] alias menu

[Elaine Meng]

Dear Tim,
I see where you are coming from, but aliases are not necessarily  
commands.  I use them all the time, but mainly to refer to some set of  
residues, e.g.

alias refats #1:57.a,230.a,301.a
alias matchats #0:10.a,218.a,287.a
alias residues #0:8.a,10.a,164.a,218.a,287.a
alias showchain :.a
   [...]
match matchats refats
~modeldisp #1
~disp
ribbon showchain
ribrepr smooth
disp residues
repr stick residues

(taken from real command files I used a couple of days ago)  One  
purpose of aliases is to make a hard-to-type thing into an easy-to- 
type thing, so perhaps it would help to make shorter aliases.  If it  
is a matter of remembering what they are, the command "alias" without  
any arguments will show all the aliases and their definitions in the  
Reply Log.
Best,
Elaine
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.                          meng at cgl.ucsf.edu
UCSF Computer Graphics Lab (Chimera team) and Babbitt Lab
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco
                      http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/home/meng/index.html



On Feb 4, 2009, at 5:09 AM, Richmond Timothy J. wrote:

> Dear Chimera Developers,
>
> Perhaps I have missed it, but I would find a menu for selected  
> aliases very useful. Having returned to Chimera from PyMol recently,  
> it would be great to have an option for the alias command that  
> allowed the particular alias to be listed in a separate window and  
> ran the alias by clicking on the alias name listed there.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Tim
>