Jacob, Are you looking at a nucleic acid structure perhaps? PyMOL automatically disables the asterisk wildcard for atom names in PDB structures read which contain asterisks in the atom name field (as do many NA structures...).
To restore it, unset atom_name_wildcard, object-name But then note that PyMOL will then be unable to distinguish C2 in the base from C2* in the sugar, etc. However, if you issue this first, alter all, name=string.replace(name,"*","'") Then you will be able to distinguish C2 from C2' and still have your atom name wildcards! Cheers, DeLano Scientific LLC > -----Original Message----- > From: pymol-users-boun...@lists.sourceforge.net > [mailto:pymol-users-boun...@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf > Of Jacob Corn > Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 9:29 AM > To: pymol-users > Subject: [PyMOL] problems using selection wildcards? > > Dear list, > Has anyone else noticed problems with some selection > wildcards in 0.99rev8? I can still do things like "delete thingy_*" > to delete the models thingy_001, thingy_002, etc. But when I > try things like "color nitrogen, name N*" nothing happens. > I can do "color nitrogen, name N+", but that only gets > backbone amides. "color nitrogen, name NH+" (or NH*) does > nothing. This seemed to work reliably in the last release. > > For the nonce I'm using the "symbol" selector, but I found > atom selection wildcards oh-so-convenient... Am I doing > something wrong? > > Jacob > > -- > Jacob Corn > The Berger Lab > UC Berkeley - Molecular and Cell Biology jc...@uclink.berkeley.edu > phone: 510-643-8893 > fax: 510-643-9290 > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join > SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to > share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief > surveys-and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge &CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > PyMOL-users mailing list > PyMOL-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pymol-users
