[Chimera-users] deleting entries from rapid access list (plain text format)

[Boaz Shaanan]

Hi Elaine,

Editing the preferences file is exactly what I'd like to avoid. I explained to Eric my rational (and perhaps of that of others too) for asking this feature. Below is my message to him. I think Eric can see now the point in doing this.

  Cheers,

             Boaz
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Hi Eric,

Thanks. The reason for this request is quite simple (and I guess that's what other people have in mind too). The rapid access is a wonderful feature, however, every 'open' action in Chimera gets recorded in the rapid access list (pdb, smiles, apbs files etc.). Quite often I open a pdb for inspection or something else and close the session after a short while, without doing too much work. I don't want to delete the pdb, nor do I want to save the session, and if I do save the short session I don't want to delete it since at this moment I don't know whether I'll continue to work on it in the future.  There are other examples of this kind. As a result, the rapid access list gets longer and longer which makes it quite tedious to look for the sessions that you really want to re-open and which have been executed a while ago. I hope I've made myself clear.

  Boaz

Boaz Shaanan, Ph.D.
Dept. of Life Sciences
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Beer-Sheva 84105
Israel

E-mail: bshaanan at bgu.ac.il
Phone: 972-8-647-2220  Skype: boaz.shaanan
Fax:   972-8-647-2992 or 972-8-646-1710





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From: Elaine Meng [meng at cgl.ucsf.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2013 12:33 AM
To: בעז שאנן
Cc: UCSF Chimera Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Chimera-users] deleting entries from rapid access list (plain text format)

Hi Boaz,
The hack is to remove (text-edit out) the recent files from your preferences file.  This requires care in not removing the wrong number of brackets and such.   Sometimes when I'm going to give a demo for a class, I prefer it not to show my previous files list, so I make a system command-line alias for starting Chimera that replaces my existing preferences file with a short preferences file lacking the file history, or with only the few demo files in it (and with any other preferences I want to have set for that demo) before starting up Chimera.

I guess this is for "brave" or "advanced" users only.  8-)
Elaine
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.
UCSF Computer Graphics Lab (Chimera team) and Babbitt Lab
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco

On Apr 1, 2013, at 1:21 PM, Eric Pettersen wrote:

> On Mar 31, 2013, at 1:47 PM, Boaz Shaanan wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there a way to delete entries from the rapid access list without having to edit the preferences file? If there isn't such a way, is it possible to request to add such feature?
>
> Hi Boaz,
>       So I guess you know that if you click on an entry where the file doesn't exist anymore that you will get a dialog giving the option to delete that entry, delete all non-existent entries, or do nothing?  I presume this doesn't meet your needs here for some reason -- i.e. that there are entries that do exist that you want to remove?  I guess I don't understand it, but other people have asked for the same thing so I will put you on the existing enhancement-request ticket for this and raise the priority of the ticket so that it will probably get done in the next month or three...
>
> --Eric