[Chimera-users] Suggestion - autofilter history by typed substring?

[Oliver Clarke]

Just tried out the new daily build and the command line history
autofiltering works great, thanks Eric! This makes it much easier to cycle
through previous selection commands, or to remember syntax for previous vop
commands.

Cheers,
Oliver.

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Oliver Clarke <olibclarke at gmail.com> wrote:

> That sounds great, thanks Eric! I look forward to trying it out, think
> it'll be a real timesaver!
>
> Cheers,
> Oli.
>
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 2:19 PM, Eric Pettersen <pett at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi Oliver,
>>         This seems like a useful suggestion.  I have implemented it in a
>> slightly different form.  If you use the shift key while navigating the
>> command history (i.e. shift up/down arrow or control-N/P), then it will
>> jump to the next history entry that matches the current command name.
>> Available in the next daily build.
>>
>> —Eric
>>
>> > On Sep 23, 2015, at 2:42 PM, Oliver Clarke <olibclarke at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > Just a suggestion (I guess for chimera 2) - would it be possible to
>> autofilter the command history based on the typed substring?
>> >
>> > That is if I have typed “sel” and hit the up arrow, to only cycle
>> through those commands in the history that start with “sel”.
>> >
>> > This would be particularly handy for scrolling quickly through recent
>> “sel” and “color” commands - a similar mechanism is implemented in several
>> shells and it works well.
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Oliver.
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>>
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