Re: [PyMOL] (small) Pymol feature request--filter for edit settings window

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Hey Michelle,

Ezequiel Panepucci wrote grepset, a little script that allows you to do=20
exactly what you want and even more.  No need even to open the edit=20
settings menu, just type 'grepset ray', and you're cruising.

Get grepset from http://www.pymolwiki.org/index.php/Grepset and put it=20
into your .pymolrc file as 'run /path/to/grepset.py'.  Life is good.


Andreas


Michelle Gill wrote:
> While we're discussing ways to make our favorite program a little=20
> better, I had an idea I thought I'd throw out there...
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> While making some figures the other day, I found myself scrolling=20
> endlessly through the edit settings menu (under Setting --> Edit All) a=
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> number of times, mostly to locate a relatively small number of settings=
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> related to ray tracing. This got me thinking about a way to improve=20
> access to the many wonderful features that have been added to PyMOL.
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> The solution I came up with is a filter line which could be placed=20
> directly above the window listing all the settings. Users could then=20
> type a word, say "ray" or "cartoon", and only the settings containing=20
> this word would be shown.
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> The best example of a program containing this feature is the=20
> "about:config" window in Firefox. When you open a browser and type=20
> "about:config" instead of an address, a window containing hundreds of=20
> settings appears. At the top is a filter bar which you can use to pare=20
> down the number of settings listed below.
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> I think this would be a great addition to PyMOL and would help users=20
> familiarize themselves with the many new settings which have been (and=20
> will be) implemented. :)
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> Perhaps others have even better solutions to this problem. The use of a=
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> filter is just the first idea which came to my mind. I think it would b=
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> relatively easy to implement, although my python programming skills are=
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> somewhat limited.
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> Thanks,
> Michelle Gill
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