On Jan 17, 2005, at 10:21 AM, Elaine Meng wrote:
rep sphere :43.o:56.o:59.o:60.o:61.o:63.o:65.o:67.o:68.o:70-75.o:78.o:110.o:113.o
which is somewhat more of a pain to type, unfortunately. The reason is that theoretically there could be another chain that doesn't have an ID, so residue numbers not together with a specification of chain O would specify residues in the no-ID chain.
I would add that there a couple of ways to avoid having to type a long atom spec like the above repeatedly. One is to edit the previous command so that you "reuse" the atom spec part (also you can use up-arrow to get back to a command that isn't the immediately previous one). Another way is to use the 'alias' command so that a long piece of text can be replaced with a much shorter one, e.g.: alias site :43.o:56.o:59.o:60.o:61.o:63.o:65.o:67.o:68.o:70-75.o:78.o:110.o:113.o rep sphere site color red site Aliases are remembered in session files. Finally, any series of commands (including 'alias') can be put into a file and read in using the 'source' command. Eric Pettersen UCSF Computer Graphics Lab pett@cgl.ucsf.edu