+1 for this idea! I’ve wanted this for a while too…

Cheers
Oli
> 
> Date:    Thu, 15 Nov 2018 10:27:54 +0100
> From:    Jan Gebauer <[email protected]>
> Subject: Automatic rotation during "Next/Previous Residue"-Action
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> first of all thank all developers for their great work on COOT and 
> others for their great support!
> 
> I am using the software now for years very successfully. However, today 
> I noticed that I do one thing over and over again - and wondered if it 
> can't be automated. The way I finally inspect and refine my (small) 
> structures is by "spacing" through all residues and look for issues or 
> adjustments I can do. During this process I continuously rotate the 
> screen to get roughly the same orientation of the main chain trace and 
> the side chain. Especially in helices, this tends to be a very 
> repetitive mouse movement. It should be possible to implement a 
> automatic rotation which should work most of the times? (Like orient the 
> C-CA-N axis in relation to the screen as it was before next residue ...) 
> Is there such a function available, which I am unaware of? Could this be 
> implemented a Extension (like when you press ctrl+space) ? Am I the only 
> one, who would be interested in such functionality? ( Probably I am 
> "holding it wrong" ;-) )
> 
> Best,
> Jan
> 
> -- 
> Dr. Jan Gebauer
> AG Prof. Baumann
> Institut für Biochemie / Uni-Köln
> Zülpicher Str. 47 / 50674 Köln
> Fon: +49 (221) 470 3212       
> Fax: +49 (221) 470 5066
> 
> http://px.uni-koeln.de/
> 
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