Bob Hanson wrote: > OK, upon rereading this thread, especially Rolf's earliest post, and > thinking more about what SELECT a-b should mean, and what insertions > are, and all that, I do agree that the first solution I had in mind and > put into 11.5.30 is not a good idea. What if we just went with Eric's > initial idea, but not in the sense of resno >=/<=. I agree with Rolf > that that will really mess up scripts, and I agree with Eric that what > we have now is not intuitive. But I disagree with Rolf that the behavior > should be different depending upon what the file is like. That to me > seems like it would be totally opaque behavior to a user. >
That was one of my earlier ideas but not my last proposal. > It seems to me what we have now is just about right, except we should > allow for missing end groups. Then no scripts will be affected, because > surely no one has a script that selects 0 atoms (11.5.29 behavior) or > expects that. > > Taking Eric's example (2rd0): > > (505,528,529,530) > > Do we all agree that > > select 520-530 should select 3 groups (as Rasmol)? > I agree. > Taking Rolf's example with 1ak4: > > (27,1027,2027,3027,4027,5027,28) > > > Do we all agree that > > > select 27-28 should select all of these? > > select 27-2027 should select just the first three? > > select 5027-28 should select the last two? > I agree. > > And insertions (1jgq): > > (1031,1032,1032^A,1032^B,1033) > > Do we all agree that > > select 1031-1033 should select all? > > select 1031-1032^A should select just the first 3? > > select 1031-1032^C should select... what? perhaps the first 4? > I agree. Regards, Rolf ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
