Hi Corey, Using "vi" takes some learning while TextEdit is mostly self-explanatory except for the unfortunate situation that "plain text" is not a format in the TextEdit / Save As... dialog. Many programmers use "vi". I think the little bits of machine code you have seen it TextEdit plain text output is because it encodes in unicode (UTF-8), an encoding that can handle international characters (Chinese, diacriticals, ...). Chimera should read unicode command scripts (I haven't tried though), but if you open such a file in an editor that doesn't know about unicode (e.g. vi) and you've use any unusual character you'll see weird binary stuff. Tom -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Chimera-users] Chimera question with Mac From: Corey Fugate To: Durga Velukumar Date: 11/30/09 2:13 PM
You need to use a text editor like Vi or pico, both of which are included on your mac. In you applications folder, go into the utilities folder and ope Terminal. cd to your Desktop (cd Desktop) and open Vi by typing "vi" or "pico" (without quotes). These programs let you give whatever file extension you want (you want .cmd). I like Vi (I'm just used to it, there are plenty of other editors out there). Below are links to a Vi tutorial -
http://www.eng.hawaii.edu/Tutor/vi.html#conv
Elaine and Thomas - often TextEdit puts in little bits of machine code, this has caused me some grieve in the past, so I avoid that program at all costs.
On Nov 26, 2009, at 5:25 PM, Durga Velukumar wrote:
Hello,
I'm an undergraduate student at the University of Georgia and I'm using your system, UCSF Chimera, for my powerpoint presentation. I'm having some problems with trying to create a movie. I have a MacBook Pro, which I just got this recent August, and downloaded the latest Chimera version for the Mac. I'm trying to save the commands in a separate file, like TextEdit, but I don't know what type of file to save it as. I'm hoping to be able to open the file through Chimera to play the movie. I tried saving the commands as "movie.cmd" but TextEdit is not allowing me to save that type of file. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Durga