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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Mon May 07 2012 - 10:40:59 CDT

Jerome,
  This behavior is largely historic and doesn't really need to remain
this way at this point. I am planning to make some revisions to the
VMD save state mechanism to address other issues before the next
release, so I'll add this to the TODO list.

Cheers,
  John

On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 04:51:28PM +0200, Jérôme Hénin wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I am wondering why the save_state/load_state commands do not save
> display parameters such as lights and axes. This would seem simpler
> than saving other information that is actually saved... To the point
> that I am now considering writing a wrapper command that calls those
> and adds a few items that I'd like to save. Before I do that, I'd like
> to hear about the rationale behind the existing commands.
>
> Thanks,
> Jerome 

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