Suggestion - autofilter history by typed substring?
Hi all,
Just a suggestion (I guess for chimera 2) - would it be possible to autofilter the command history based on the typed substring?
That is if I have typed “sel” and hit the up arrow, to only cycle through those commands in the history that start with “sel”.
This would be particularly handy for scrolling quickly through recent “sel” and “color” commands - a similar mechanism is implemented in several shells and it works well.
Cheers, Oliver.
Hi Oliver, This seems like a useful suggestion. I have implemented it in a slightly different form. If you use the shift key while navigating the command history (i.e. shift up/down arrow or control-N/P), then it will jump to the next history entry that matches the current command name. Available in the next daily build.
—Eric
On Sep 23, 2015, at 2:42 PM, Oliver Clarke olibclarke@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
Just a suggestion (I guess for chimera 2) - would it be possible to autofilter the command history based on the typed substring?
That is if I have typed “sel” and hit the up arrow, to only cycle through those commands in the history that start with “sel”.
This would be particularly handy for scrolling quickly through recent “sel” and “color” commands - a similar mechanism is implemented in several shells and it works well.
Cheers, Oliver. _______________________________________________ Chimera-users mailing list Chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users
That sounds great, thanks Eric! I look forward to trying it out, think it'll be a real timesaver!
Cheers, Oli.
On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 2:19 PM, Eric Pettersen pett@cgl.ucsf.edu wrote:
Hi Oliver, This seems like a useful suggestion. I have implemented it in a slightly different form. If you use the shift key while navigating the command history (i.e. shift up/down arrow or control-N/P), then it will jump to the next history entry that matches the current command name. Available in the next daily build.
—Eric
On Sep 23, 2015, at 2:42 PM, Oliver Clarke olibclarke@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
Just a suggestion (I guess for chimera 2) - would it be possible to
autofilter the command history based on the typed substring?
That is if I have typed “sel” and hit the up arrow, to only cycle
through those commands in the history that start with “sel”.
This would be particularly handy for scrolling quickly through recent
“sel” and “color” commands - a similar mechanism is implemented in several shells and it works well.
Cheers, Oliver. _______________________________________________ Chimera-users mailing list Chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users
Just tried out the new daily build and the command line history autofiltering works great, thanks Eric! This makes it much easier to cycle through previous selection commands, or to remember syntax for previous vop commands.
Cheers, Oliver.
On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Oliver Clarke olibclarke@gmail.com wrote:
That sounds great, thanks Eric! I look forward to trying it out, think it'll be a real timesaver!
Cheers, Oli.
On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 2:19 PM, Eric Pettersen pett@cgl.ucsf.edu wrote:
Hi Oliver, This seems like a useful suggestion. I have implemented it in a slightly different form. If you use the shift key while navigating the command history (i.e. shift up/down arrow or control-N/P), then it will jump to the next history entry that matches the current command name. Available in the next daily build.
—Eric
On Sep 23, 2015, at 2:42 PM, Oliver Clarke olibclarke@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi all,
Just a suggestion (I guess for chimera 2) - would it be possible to
autofilter the command history based on the typed substring?
That is if I have typed “sel” and hit the up arrow, to only cycle
through those commands in the history that start with “sel”.
This would be particularly handy for scrolling quickly through recent
“sel” and “color” commands - a similar mechanism is implemented in several shells and it works well.
Cheers, Oliver. _______________________________________________ Chimera-users mailing list Chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users
I also just tweaked the up/down history navigation so that if the navigation would produce a result identical to whatever is currently in the command line, it “keeps going” until it yields a results that isn’t identical. This applies to both normal up/down and shifted up/down. So, if you have several consecutive identical entries in your command history, this effectively treats them as one entry and therefore may reduce the need for a preference to not record consecutive identical entries in the command history…
—Eric
Eric Pettersen UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
On Oct 1, 2015, at 6:35 AM, Oliver Clarke olibclarke@gmail.com wrote:
Just tried out the new daily build and the command line history autofiltering works great, thanks Eric! This makes it much easier to cycle through previous selection commands, or to remember syntax for previous vop commands.
Cheers, Oliver.
On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Oliver Clarke <olibclarke@gmail.com mailto:olibclarke@gmail.com> wrote: That sounds great, thanks Eric! I look forward to trying it out, think it'll be a real timesaver!
Cheers, Oli.
On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 2:19 PM, Eric Pettersen <pett@cgl.ucsf.edu mailto:pett@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote: Hi Oliver, This seems like a useful suggestion. I have implemented it in a slightly different form. If you use the shift key while navigating the command history (i.e. shift up/down arrow or control-N/P), then it will jump to the next history entry that matches the current command name. Available in the next daily build.
—Eric
On Sep 23, 2015, at 2:42 PM, Oliver Clarke <olibclarke@gmail.com mailto:olibclarke@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
Just a suggestion (I guess for chimera 2) - would it be possible to autofilter the command history based on the typed substring?
That is if I have typed “sel” and hit the up arrow, to only cycle through those commands in the history that start with “sel”.
This would be particularly handy for scrolling quickly through recent “sel” and “color” commands - a similar mechanism is implemented in several shells and it works well.
Cheers, Oliver. _______________________________________________ Chimera-users mailing list Chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu mailto:Chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users
That sounds great Eric, those two modifications combined will make finding and repeating old commands much easier!
Oliver.
On Oct 1, 2015, at 3:31 PM, Eric Pettersen pett@cgl.ucsf.edu wrote:
I also just tweaked the up/down history navigation so that if the navigation would produce a result identical to whatever is currently in the command line, it “keeps going” until it yields a results that isn’t identical. This applies to both normal up/down and shifted up/down. So, if you have several consecutive identical entries in your command history, this effectively treats them as one entry and therefore may reduce the need for a preference to not record consecutive identical entries in the command history…
—Eric
Eric Pettersen UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
On Oct 1, 2015, at 6:35 AM, Oliver Clarke <olibclarke@gmail.com mailto:olibclarke@gmail.com> wrote:
Just tried out the new daily build and the command line history autofiltering works great, thanks Eric! This makes it much easier to cycle through previous selection commands, or to remember syntax for previous vop commands.
Cheers, Oliver.
On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Oliver Clarke <olibclarke@gmail.com mailto:olibclarke@gmail.com> wrote: That sounds great, thanks Eric! I look forward to trying it out, think it'll be a real timesaver!
Cheers, Oli.
On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 2:19 PM, Eric Pettersen <pett@cgl.ucsf.edu mailto:pett@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote: Hi Oliver, This seems like a useful suggestion. I have implemented it in a slightly different form. If you use the shift key while navigating the command history (i.e. shift up/down arrow or control-N/P), then it will jump to the next history entry that matches the current command name. Available in the next daily build.
—Eric
On Sep 23, 2015, at 2:42 PM, Oliver Clarke <olibclarke@gmail.com mailto:olibclarke@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
Just a suggestion (I guess for chimera 2) - would it be possible to autofilter the command history based on the typed substring?
That is if I have typed “sel” and hit the up arrow, to only cycle through those commands in the history that start with “sel”.
This would be particularly handy for scrolling quickly through recent “sel” and “color” commands - a similar mechanism is implemented in several shells and it works well.
Cheers, Oliver. _______________________________________________ Chimera-users mailing list Chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu mailto:Chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users
Hi Eric, I have been using the alterations you made to history navigation in Chimera and I like them a lot - they make it much easier to locate old commands.
I have one suggestion for a slight tweak… at the moment, scrolling up through the history (with Shift+Up) seems to update the string to filter on as I scroll. There is a (very) minor issue with this approach. It means the process is not reversible and the results depend on the contents and ordering of the history.
For example, lets say I’m looking for a command I typed a while back, i know it started with “bond” but can’t remember the exact name of the command. If I type “bond” and then hit Shift+Up, I will only find the first matching command - if I had both bondrepr and bondzone in my command history, for example, I will only see the first one. I think it would be more intuitive if history filtering paid attention to only the initially typed string, if that is possible - so if I type “bond”, I will scroll up through bondrepr, bond zone, bonddisplay etc, and will obtain the same results heading back “down” through the command history.
Cheers, Oli.
On Oct 1, 2015, at 3:31 PM, Eric Pettersen pett@cgl.ucsf.edu wrote:
I also just tweaked the up/down history navigation so that if the navigation would produce a result identical to whatever is currently in the command line, it “keeps going” until it yields a results that isn’t identical. This applies to both normal up/down and shifted up/down. So, if you have several consecutive identical entries in your command history, this effectively treats them as one entry and therefore may reduce the need for a preference to not record consecutive identical entries in the command history…
—Eric
Eric Pettersen UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
On Oct 1, 2015, at 6:35 AM, Oliver Clarke <olibclarke@gmail.com mailto:olibclarke@gmail.com> wrote:
Just tried out the new daily build and the command line history autofiltering works great, thanks Eric! This makes it much easier to cycle through previous selection commands, or to remember syntax for previous vop commands.
Cheers, Oliver.
On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Oliver Clarke <olibclarke@gmail.com mailto:olibclarke@gmail.com> wrote: That sounds great, thanks Eric! I look forward to trying it out, think it'll be a real timesaver!
Cheers, Oli.
On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 2:19 PM, Eric Pettersen <pett@cgl.ucsf.edu mailto:pett@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote: Hi Oliver, This seems like a useful suggestion. I have implemented it in a slightly different form. If you use the shift key while navigating the command history (i.e. shift up/down arrow or control-N/P), then it will jump to the next history entry that matches the current command name. Available in the next daily build.
—Eric
On Sep 23, 2015, at 2:42 PM, Oliver Clarke <olibclarke@gmail.com mailto:olibclarke@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
Just a suggestion (I guess for chimera 2) - would it be possible to autofilter the command history based on the typed substring?
That is if I have typed “sel” and hit the up arrow, to only cycle through those commands in the history that start with “sel”.
This would be particularly handy for scrolling quickly through recent “sel” and “color” commands - a similar mechanism is implemented in several shells and it works well.
Cheers, Oliver. _______________________________________________ Chimera-users mailing list Chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu mailto:Chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users
Hi Oliver, Certainly a useful suggestion, though it will require some implementation effort. Right now, the command line has no “state” — when you type something, it doesn’t need to know what keys were typed before, whereas with your suggestion when someone types up/down arrow the behavior depends on whether the preceding typed key was an up/down arrow or was some other key. Also, nothing in the code monitors every keystroke; only some keystrokes (e.g. up/down arrow, Return) are handled as they occur. Consequently, this is getting on my to-do list but may be awhile before anything materializes.
—Eric
Eric Pettersen UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
On Oct 12, 2015, at 5:59 AM, Oliver Clarke olibclarke@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Eric, I have been using the alterations you made to history navigation in Chimera and I like them a lot - they make it much easier to locate old commands.
I have one suggestion for a slight tweak… at the moment, scrolling up through the history (with Shift+Up) seems to update the string to filter on as I scroll. There is a (very) minor issue with this approach. It means the process is not reversible and the results depend on the contents and ordering of the history.
For example, lets say I’m looking for a command I typed a while back, i know it started with “bond” but can’t remember the exact name of the command. If I type “bond” and then hit Shift+Up, I will only find the first matching command - if I had both bondrepr and bondzone in my command history, for example, I will only see the first one. I think it would be more intuitive if history filtering paid attention to only the initially typed string, if that is possible - so if I type “bond”, I will scroll up through bondrepr, bond zone, bonddisplay etc, and will obtain the same results heading back “down” through the command history.
Cheers, Oli.
On Oct 1, 2015, at 3:31 PM, Eric Pettersen <pett@cgl.ucsf.edu mailto:pett@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
I also just tweaked the up/down history navigation so that if the navigation would produce a result identical to whatever is currently in the command line, it “keeps going” until it yields a results that isn’t identical. This applies to both normal up/down and shifted up/down. So, if you have several consecutive identical entries in your command history, this effectively treats them as one entry and therefore may reduce the need for a preference to not record consecutive identical entries in the command history…
—Eric
Eric Pettersen UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
On Oct 1, 2015, at 6:35 AM, Oliver Clarke <olibclarke@gmail.com mailto:olibclarke@gmail.com> wrote:
Just tried out the new daily build and the command line history autofiltering works great, thanks Eric! This makes it much easier to cycle through previous selection commands, or to remember syntax for previous vop commands.
Cheers, Oliver.
On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Oliver Clarke <olibclarke@gmail.com mailto:olibclarke@gmail.com> wrote: That sounds great, thanks Eric! I look forward to trying it out, think it'll be a real timesaver!
Cheers, Oli.
On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 2:19 PM, Eric Pettersen <pett@cgl.ucsf.edu mailto:pett@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote: Hi Oliver, This seems like a useful suggestion. I have implemented it in a slightly different form. If you use the shift key while navigating the command history (i.e. shift up/down arrow or control-N/P), then it will jump to the next history entry that matches the current command name. Available in the next daily build.
—Eric
On Sep 23, 2015, at 2:42 PM, Oliver Clarke <olibclarke@gmail.com mailto:olibclarke@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
Just a suggestion (I guess for chimera 2) - would it be possible to autofilter the command history based on the typed substring?
That is if I have typed “sel” and hit the up arrow, to only cycle through those commands in the history that start with “sel”.
This would be particularly handy for scrolling quickly through recent “sel” and “color” commands - a similar mechanism is implemented in several shells and it works well.
Cheers, Oliver. _______________________________________________ Chimera-users mailing list Chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu mailto:Chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users
Ah, makes perfect sense, thanks Eric! The current behaviour is much better than it was previously anyway - this was just a minor suggestion for improvement.
Cheers, Oli.
On Oct 13, 2015, at 7:59 PM, Eric Pettersen pett@cgl.ucsf.edu wrote:
Hi Oliver, Certainly a useful suggestion, though it will require some implementation effort. Right now, the command line has no “state” — when you type something, it doesn’t need to know what keys were typed before, whereas with your suggestion when someone types up/down arrow the behavior depends on whether the preceding typed key was an up/down arrow or was some other key. Also, nothing in the code monitors every keystroke; only some keystrokes (e.g. up/down arrow, Return) are handled as they occur. Consequently, this is getting on my to-do list but may be awhile before anything materializes.
—Eric
Eric Pettersen UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
On Oct 12, 2015, at 5:59 AM, Oliver Clarke <olibclarke@gmail.com mailto:olibclarke@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Eric, I have been using the alterations you made to history navigation in Chimera and I like them a lot - they make it much easier to locate old commands.
I have one suggestion for a slight tweak… at the moment, scrolling up through the history (with Shift+Up) seems to update the string to filter on as I scroll. There is a (very) minor issue with this approach. It means the process is not reversible and the results depend on the contents and ordering of the history.
For example, lets say I’m looking for a command I typed a while back, i know it started with “bond” but can’t remember the exact name of the command. If I type “bond” and then hit Shift+Up, I will only find the first matching command - if I had both bondrepr and bondzone in my command history, for example, I will only see the first one. I think it would be more intuitive if history filtering paid attention to only the initially typed string, if that is possible - so if I type “bond”, I will scroll up through bondrepr, bond zone, bonddisplay etc, and will obtain the same results heading back “down” through the command history.
Cheers, Oli.
On Oct 1, 2015, at 3:31 PM, Eric Pettersen <pett@cgl.ucsf.edu mailto:pett@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
I also just tweaked the up/down history navigation so that if the navigation would produce a result identical to whatever is currently in the command line, it “keeps going” until it yields a results that isn’t identical. This applies to both normal up/down and shifted up/down. So, if you have several consecutive identical entries in your command history, this effectively treats them as one entry and therefore may reduce the need for a preference to not record consecutive identical entries in the command history…
—Eric
Eric Pettersen UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
On Oct 1, 2015, at 6:35 AM, Oliver Clarke <olibclarke@gmail.com mailto:olibclarke@gmail.com> wrote:
Just tried out the new daily build and the command line history autofiltering works great, thanks Eric! This makes it much easier to cycle through previous selection commands, or to remember syntax for previous vop commands.
Cheers, Oliver.
On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Oliver Clarke <olibclarke@gmail.com mailto:olibclarke@gmail.com> wrote: That sounds great, thanks Eric! I look forward to trying it out, think it'll be a real timesaver!
Cheers, Oli.
On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 2:19 PM, Eric Pettersen <pett@cgl.ucsf.edu mailto:pett@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote: Hi Oliver, This seems like a useful suggestion. I have implemented it in a slightly different form. If you use the shift key while navigating the command history (i.e. shift up/down arrow or control-N/P), then it will jump to the next history entry that matches the current command name. Available in the next daily build.
—Eric
On Sep 23, 2015, at 2:42 PM, Oliver Clarke <olibclarke@gmail.com mailto:olibclarke@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
Just a suggestion (I guess for chimera 2) - would it be possible to autofilter the command history based on the typed substring?
That is if I have typed “sel” and hit the up arrow, to only cycle through those commands in the history that start with “sel”.
This would be particularly handy for scrolling quickly through recent “sel” and “color” commands - a similar mechanism is implemented in several shells and it works well.
Cheers, Oliver. _______________________________________________ Chimera-users mailing list Chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu mailto:Chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users
Well, got to this sooner than I thought I would. Will be in the next daily build.
—Eric
On Oct 13, 2015, at 5:00 PM, Oliver Clarke olibclarke@gmail.com wrote:
Ah, makes perfect sense, thanks Eric! The current behaviour is much better than it was previously anyway - this was just a minor suggestion for improvement.
Cheers, Oli.
On Oct 13, 2015, at 7:59 PM, Eric Pettersen <pett@cgl.ucsf.edu mailto:pett@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
Hi Oliver, Certainly a useful suggestion, though it will require some implementation effort. Right now, the command line has no “state” — when you type something, it doesn’t need to know what keys were typed before, whereas with your suggestion when someone types up/down arrow the behavior depends on whether the preceding typed key was an up/down arrow or was some other key. Also, nothing in the code monitors every keystroke; only some keystrokes (e.g. up/down arrow, Return) are handled as they occur. Consequently, this is getting on my to-do list but may be awhile before anything materializes.
—Eric
Eric Pettersen UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
On Oct 12, 2015, at 5:59 AM, Oliver Clarke <olibclarke@gmail.com mailto:olibclarke@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Eric, I have been using the alterations you made to history navigation in Chimera and I like them a lot - they make it much easier to locate old commands.
I have one suggestion for a slight tweak… at the moment, scrolling up through the history (with Shift+Up) seems to update the string to filter on as I scroll. There is a (very) minor issue with this approach. It means the process is not reversible and the results depend on the contents and ordering of the history.
For example, lets say I’m looking for a command I typed a while back, i know it started with “bond” but can’t remember the exact name of the command. If I type “bond” and then hit Shift+Up, I will only find the first matching command - if I had both bondrepr and bondzone in my command history, for example, I will only see the first one. I think it would be more intuitive if history filtering paid attention to only the initially typed string, if that is possible - so if I type “bond”, I will scroll up through bondrepr, bond zone, bonddisplay etc, and will obtain the same results heading back “down” through the command history.
Cheers, Oli.
On Oct 1, 2015, at 3:31 PM, Eric Pettersen <pett@cgl.ucsf.edu mailto:pett@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
I also just tweaked the up/down history navigation so that if the navigation would produce a result identical to whatever is currently in the command line, it “keeps going” until it yields a results that isn’t identical. This applies to both normal up/down and shifted up/down. So, if you have several consecutive identical entries in your command history, this effectively treats them as one entry and therefore may reduce the need for a preference to not record consecutive identical entries in the command history…
—Eric
Eric Pettersen UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
On Oct 1, 2015, at 6:35 AM, Oliver Clarke <olibclarke@gmail.com mailto:olibclarke@gmail.com> wrote:
Just tried out the new daily build and the command line history autofiltering works great, thanks Eric! This makes it much easier to cycle through previous selection commands, or to remember syntax for previous vop commands.
Cheers, Oliver.
On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Oliver Clarke <olibclarke@gmail.com mailto:olibclarke@gmail.com> wrote: That sounds great, thanks Eric! I look forward to trying it out, think it'll be a real timesaver!
Cheers, Oli.
On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 2:19 PM, Eric Pettersen <pett@cgl.ucsf.edu mailto:pett@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote: Hi Oliver, This seems like a useful suggestion. I have implemented it in a slightly different form. If you use the shift key while navigating the command history (i.e. shift up/down arrow or control-N/P), then it will jump to the next history entry that matches the current command name. Available in the next daily build.
—Eric
On Sep 23, 2015, at 2:42 PM, Oliver Clarke <olibclarke@gmail.com mailto:olibclarke@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
Just a suggestion (I guess for chimera 2) - would it be possible to autofilter the command history based on the typed substring?
That is if I have typed “sel” and hit the up arrow, to only cycle through those commands in the history that start with “sel”.
This would be particularly handy for scrolling quickly through recent “sel” and “color” commands - a similar mechanism is implemented in several shells and it works well.
Cheers, Oliver. _______________________________________________ Chimera-users mailing list Chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu mailto:Chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users
Wow, that was quick! Thanks Eric!
Oli.
On Oct 14, 2015, at 5:11 PM, Eric Pettersen pett@cgl.ucsf.edu wrote:
Well, got to this sooner than I thought I would. Will be in the next daily build.
—Eric
On Oct 13, 2015, at 5:00 PM, Oliver Clarke <olibclarke@gmail.com mailto:olibclarke@gmail.com> wrote:
Ah, makes perfect sense, thanks Eric! The current behaviour is much better than it was previously anyway - this was just a minor suggestion for improvement.
Cheers, Oli.
On Oct 13, 2015, at 7:59 PM, Eric Pettersen <pett@cgl.ucsf.edu mailto:pett@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
Hi Oliver, Certainly a useful suggestion, though it will require some implementation effort. Right now, the command line has no “state” — when you type something, it doesn’t need to know what keys were typed before, whereas with your suggestion when someone types up/down arrow the behavior depends on whether the preceding typed key was an up/down arrow or was some other key. Also, nothing in the code monitors every keystroke; only some keystrokes (e.g. up/down arrow, Return) are handled as they occur. Consequently, this is getting on my to-do list but may be awhile before anything materializes.
—Eric
Eric Pettersen UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
On Oct 12, 2015, at 5:59 AM, Oliver Clarke <olibclarke@gmail.com mailto:olibclarke@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Eric, I have been using the alterations you made to history navigation in Chimera and I like them a lot - they make it much easier to locate old commands.
I have one suggestion for a slight tweak… at the moment, scrolling up through the history (with Shift+Up) seems to update the string to filter on as I scroll. There is a (very) minor issue with this approach. It means the process is not reversible and the results depend on the contents and ordering of the history.
For example, lets say I’m looking for a command I typed a while back, i know it started with “bond” but can’t remember the exact name of the command. If I type “bond” and then hit Shift+Up, I will only find the first matching command - if I had both bondrepr and bondzone in my command history, for example, I will only see the first one. I think it would be more intuitive if history filtering paid attention to only the initially typed string, if that is possible - so if I type “bond”, I will scroll up through bondrepr, bond zone, bonddisplay etc, and will obtain the same results heading back “down” through the command history.
Cheers, Oli.
On Oct 1, 2015, at 3:31 PM, Eric Pettersen <pett@cgl.ucsf.edu mailto:pett@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
I also just tweaked the up/down history navigation so that if the navigation would produce a result identical to whatever is currently in the command line, it “keeps going” until it yields a results that isn’t identical. This applies to both normal up/down and shifted up/down. So, if you have several consecutive identical entries in your command history, this effectively treats them as one entry and therefore may reduce the need for a preference to not record consecutive identical entries in the command history…
—Eric
Eric Pettersen UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
On Oct 1, 2015, at 6:35 AM, Oliver Clarke <olibclarke@gmail.com mailto:olibclarke@gmail.com> wrote:
Just tried out the new daily build and the command line history autofiltering works great, thanks Eric! This makes it much easier to cycle through previous selection commands, or to remember syntax for previous vop commands.
Cheers, Oliver.
On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Oliver Clarke <olibclarke@gmail.com mailto:olibclarke@gmail.com> wrote: That sounds great, thanks Eric! I look forward to trying it out, think it'll be a real timesaver!
Cheers, Oli.
On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 2:19 PM, Eric Pettersen <pett@cgl.ucsf.edu mailto:pett@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote: Hi Oliver, This seems like a useful suggestion. I have implemented it in a slightly different form. If you use the shift key while navigating the command history (i.e. shift up/down arrow or control-N/P), then it will jump to the next history entry that matches the current command name. Available in the next daily build.
—Eric
> On Sep 23, 2015, at 2:42 PM, Oliver Clarke <olibclarke@gmail.com mailto:olibclarke@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > Just a suggestion (I guess for chimera 2) - would it be possible to autofilter the command history based on the typed substring? > > That is if I have typed “sel” and hit the up arrow, to only cycle through those commands in the history that start with “sel”. > > This would be particularly handy for scrolling quickly through recent “sel” and “color” commands - a similar mechanism is implemented in several shells and it works well. > > Cheers, > Oliver. > _______________________________________________ > Chimera-users mailing list > Chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu mailto:Chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu > http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users >
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