Hi Elaine,

Editing the preferences file is exactly what I'd like to avoid. I explained to Eric my rational (and perhaps of that of others too) for asking this feature. Below is my message to him. I think Eric can see now the point in doing this.

Cheers,

Boaz --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi Eric,

Thanks. The reason for this request is quite simple (and I guess that's what other people have in mind too). The rapid access is a wonderful feature, however, every 'open' action in Chimera gets recorded in the rapid access list (pdb, smiles, apbs files etc.). Quite often I open a pdb for inspection or something else and close the session after a short while, without doing too much work. I don't want to delete the pdb, nor do I want to save the session, and if I do save the short session I don't want to delete it since at this moment I don't know whether I'll continue to work on it in the future. There are other examples of this kind. As a result, the rapid access list gets longer and longer which makes it quite tedious to look for the sessions that you really want to re-open and which have been executed a while ago. I hope I've made myself clear.

Boaz

Boaz Shaanan, Ph.D. Dept. of Life Sciences Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Beer-Sheva 84105 Israel

E-mail: bshaanan@bgu.ac.il Phone: 972-8-647-2220 Skype: boaz.shaanan Fax: 972-8-647-2992 or 972-8-646-1710

________________________________________ From: Elaine Meng [meng@cgl.ucsf.edu] Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2013 12:33 AM To: בעז שאנן Cc: UCSF Chimera Mailing List Subject: Re: [Chimera-users] deleting entries from rapid access list (plain text format)

Hi Boaz, The hack is to remove (text-edit out) the recent files from your preferences file. This requires care in not removing the wrong number of brackets and such. Sometimes when I'm going to give a demo for a class, I prefer it not to show my previous files list, so I make a system command-line alias for starting Chimera that replaces my existing preferences file with a short preferences file lacking the file history, or with only the few demo files in it (and with any other preferences I want to have set for that demo) before starting up Chimera.

I guess this is for "brave" or "advanced" users only. 8-) Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Computer Graphics Lab (Chimera team) and Babbitt Lab Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco

On Apr 1, 2013, at 1:21 PM, Eric Pettersen wrote:

On Mar 31, 2013, at 1:47 PM, Boaz Shaanan wrote:

...

Hi,

Is there a way to delete entries from the rapid access list without having to edit the preferences file? If there isn't such a way, is it possible to request to add such feature?

Hi Boaz, So I guess you know that if you click on an entry where the file doesn't exist anymore that you will get a dialog giving the option to delete that entry, delete all non-existent entries, or do nothing? I presume this doesn't meet your needs here for some reason -- i.e. that there are entries that do exist that you want to remove? I guess I don't understand it, but other people have asked for the same thing so I will put you on the existing enhancement-request ticket for this and raise the priority of the ticket so that it will probably get done in the next month or three...

--Eric

Thanks Elaine, Yes, I understood the gist of your message. Let's see what Eric comes up with.

Best regards,

Boaz

Boaz Shaanan, Ph.D. Dept. of Life Sciences Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Beer-Sheva 84105 Israel

E-mail: bshaanan@bgu.ac.il Phone: 972-8-647-2220 Skype: boaz.shaanan Fax: 972-8-647-2992 or 972-8-646-1710

________________________________________ From: Elaine Meng [meng@cgl.ucsf.edu] Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2013 3:20 AM To: בעז שאנן Cc: UCSF Chimera Mailing List Subject: Re: [Chimera-users] deleting entries from rapid access list (plain text format)

Hi Boaz, I only meant it as an "in the meanwhile" alternative, not to contradict your suggestion (which I agree with). Elaine

On Apr 1, 2013, at 3:11 PM, Boaz Shaanan wrote:

Hi Elaine, Editing the preferences file is exactly what I'd like to avoid. I explained to Eric my rational (and perhaps of that of others too) for asking this feature. Below is my message to him. I think Eric can see now the point in doing this. Cheers,

        Boaz

---

Hi Eric,

Thanks. The reason for this request is quite simple (and I guess that's what other people have in mind too). The rapid access is a wonderful feature, however, every 'open' action in Chimera gets recorded in the rapid access list (pdb, smiles, apbs files etc.). Quite often I open a pdb for inspection or something else and close the session after a short while, without doing too much work. I don't want to delete the pdb, nor do I want to save the session, and if I do save the short session I don't want to delete it since at this moment I don't know whether I'll continue to work on it in the future. There are other examples of this kind. As a result, the rapid access list gets longer and longer which makes it quite tedious to look for the sessions that you really want to re-open and which have been executed a while ago. I hope I've made myself clear.

Boaz