Dear Tim, I see where you are coming from, but aliases are not necessarily commands. I use them all the time, but mainly to refer to some set of residues, e.g. alias refats #1:57.a,230.a,301.a alias matchats #0:10.a,218.a,287.a alias residues #0:8.a,10.a,164.a,218.a,287.a alias showchain :.a [...] match matchats refats ~modeldisp #1 ~disp ribbon showchain ribrepr smooth disp residues repr stick residues (taken from real command files I used a couple of days ago) One purpose of aliases is to make a hard-to-type thing into an easy-to- type thing, so perhaps it would help to make shorter aliases. If it is a matter of remembering what they are, the command "alias" without any arguments will show all the aliases and their definitions in the Reply Log. Best, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. meng@cgl.ucsf.edu UCSF Computer Graphics Lab (Chimera team) and Babbitt Lab Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/home/meng/index.html On Feb 4, 2009, at 5:09 AM, Richmond Timothy J. wrote:
Dear Chimera Developers,
Perhaps I have missed it, but I would find a menu for selected aliases very useful. Having returned to Chimera from PyMol recently, it would be great to have an option for the alias command that allowed the particular alias to be listed in a separate window and ran the alias by clicking on the alias name listed there.
Best regards,
Tim