Hi Xavier, 
I see you also sent this to chimerax-users, and since I figured out it was a ChimeraX question I answered it there:

<https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/pipermail/chimerax-users/2022-November/004646.html>

Best,
Elaine

On Nov 29, 2022, at 7:11 AM, F.Xavier Gomis-Rüth via Chimera-users <chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:

Hi Elaine,
when coloring a helix differently from the attached coils, is there a means to prevent the first short segment of the coil
to get the color of the helix? It seems to me there was some kind of "halfbond"-mode one...
Best,
Xavier

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