[chimerax-users] help with chimerax wildcards

[Michael Lawrence]

Hi Elaine, thanks for your help - yes, the problem disappears when I use
the latest build.
Sincerely
Mike

On Wed, 20 Feb 2019, 04:06 Elaine Meng <meng at cgl.ucsf.edu wrote:

> Hi Mike,
> Are you sure you didn’t use Chimera syntax, which has the color before the
> spec? That is the common reason for this error.
>
> Your command looks fine, and works for me when I try it in daily build
> (2/19) and 0.8 release (12/17/2018).
>
> However, the simpler approach for element N is just to use element symbol:
>
> color N blue
>
> Also if you don’t want to also color the ribbons entirely blue (all amino
> acids have N), you may want to add that target is atoms:
>
> color N blue target a
>  - or -
> color N blue atoms
>
> I hope this helps,
> Elaine
> -----
> Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.
> UCSF Chimera(X) team
> Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
> University of California, San Francisco
>
> > On Feb 17, 2019, at 1:17 PM, Michael Lawrence <mikeclawrence at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi, I am trying to use wild cards in chimerax but they appear not to
> work. I type the command
> >
> > color @N* blue
> >
> > and get as response
> > Expected a color or one of 'byatom', 'bychain', 'byelement', 'byhetero',
> 'bymodel', 'bynucleotide', 'bypolymer', 'fromatoms', or 'random' or a
> keyword
> >
> > All I am trying to do is color all nitrogens blue.
> > Version 0.5 (2018-02-05) running on macOS Sierra v10.12.6
> >
> > what am I doing wrong?
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > Mike Lawrence
>
>
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