Hi Seth,
I think if you place your first water using the "place atom at this position" 
button on the right side, then select your PDB file - all subsequent 
invocations of the "w" key will add waters to your PDB of interest instead of 
putting them in a separate PDB.
Sincerely,
Scott

> On Jan 9, 2014, at 18:30, Seth Harris <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi all & Paul,
> 
> Sometime back I found or was taught or given this:
> 
> (add-key-binding "Add Water" "w" (lambda () (place-typed-atom-at-pointer 
> "Water")))
> 
> (Probably from "Pauls-key-bindings-for-coot"...)
> 
> I was looking for a quick way while browsing map peaks to add waters that the 
> 'find waters' algorithms had overlooked for one reason or another.
> 
> It fell into disuse, however, as I'd end up with all these waters in the 
> "Pointer Atoms" object, and it would be a chore to reunite them with the 
> primary pdb in question, accounting for numbering differences of already 
> existing waters. 
> 
> I'd much rather replicate what the "Place atom at pointer..." + icon dialogue 
> does, where you tell it which molecule you want to add to and it takes care 
> of the numbering appropriately.
> 
> So, is it simple to do this on key binding where function would be "put water 
> at pointer but add it to mol 0 with appropriate incremental residue 
> numbering"?
> 
> (I tend to fire coot up from scripts, so can guarantee that mol number 0 is 
> the one I want to use...)
> 
> Thanks for any tips/guidance (or flat out working answer!) or suggestions I 
> go read the scheme scripting manual...
> 
> Seth
> 
> 
> 
> 

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