Super! And Paul, thanks for always being so terrifically responsive, thoughtful in reply and often in anticipation when things already exist, and also tolerating my imprecision...yes I meant NCS! Will check out the other functions and scripting thereof!
Cheers Seth On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 10:22 AM, Paul Emsley <[email protected]> wrote: > On 06/09/2017 18:14, Seth Harris wrote: > >> Hello Paul, Coot users! >> >> In the wonderful pantheon of Coot tools, is there a way to leap between >> equivalent points in symmetry mates with a nice single key shortcut, for >> instance? Or could there be? I seem to be getting several cases with 8 >> copies/asu and while initially one may build a single version and then >> clone it into all 8 positions, at some point one gets down to wanting to >> check the similarities/differences of all copies, and it would be handy if >> I've just visiting chain A, Leu30, for instance, to be able to rapidly go >> to chain B, Leu30 and so on >> > > This is not possible with symmetry mates, but is possible with NCS mates > (but perhaps that's what you mean). Press the "O" key. > > (yes, more rapidly than entering chain letters in the Go To Atom > dialogue...). Similar case for > >> ligands...the ligand button short cut is pretty good, but if I navigate >> off the ligand to look at surroundings, the next click of the heteroatom >> /ligand center button will likely have reset to the top of the list, and >> with cofactors in all copies that can be 16 clicks until I get back to >> through the cycle. >> > > :-) Yes. This could be better. > > You could probably make a script for "Quick View Save" and "Go To Last > View" - I imagine that would do most of what you want. > > >> In related aspects, in the Go To Atom dialog, I often have a single chain >> per ligand residue, but find I have to expand the sub menu to show the >> single residue to click on that to center. Anyway that the chain listing >> itself could be sensitive to clicks for centering? Obviously would be >> different behavior for protein chain, but perhaps the center of mass, or >> more simply centering on whatever is the first residue of the chain would >> be a consistent and desired behavior. >> > > This is a good idea and may be very easy to add. If it is, I'll do it > tomorrow. > > Paul. >
