[Jmol-users] Re: default state -- was Re: RasMol rotations about axes

[Herbert J. B. <ya...@be...>]

The distinction between oldunix and oldwindows is simply a recognition
of the fact that they don't work precisely the same way.  A dotted
notation is OK by me.  Any other people have opinions?  This code
will be written in the next couple of weeks.

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On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Miguel Howard wrote:

> Herbert said:
>
> >> As we build up a new set of defaults we could then add
> >> one more command
> >>
> >>   set default <setup>
> >>
> >> where setup would be the name of a "standard" set of default
> >> settings all packaged together (e.g. oldunix, oldwindows,
> >> newcommon, etc.)  This way we would not break any existing
> >> scripts, but could move towards common choices that satisfy
> >> current demands.
>
> I think that this sounds like a *very* good idea.
>
> One thing ... it isn't clear to me why we would want to make the platform
> distinction (you said 'oldunix, oldwindows').
>
> If there is a need to make some type of platform distinction, then we may
> want to consider a hyphenated or dotted name so that it could be optional:
>   old
>   old.unix
>   old.windows
>
> Miguel
>
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