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From: Peter Freddolino (petefred_at_umich.edu)
Date: Fri Apr 10 2020 - 18:24:05 CDT

Just a quick addition to this -- just running
logfile console
will print all of the tcl equivalents to the console when you do anything
through the GUI.
Best,
Peter

On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 6:08 PM Josh Vermaas <joshua.vermaas_at_gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Ross,
>
> Yes. Its under the mol commands "mol default blah blah blah", which you
> could add to your .vmdrc file.
> https://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/current/ug/node140.html What I've
> found most useful (since alot of the representations have strange options),
> is to do it once manually with logging on (File->log) to see what the
> command options are for my preferred representation.
>
> -Josh
>
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 2:11 PM Ross Williams <rossjrw_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm using VMD on the regular for a set of fairly similar structures.
>>
>> Whenever I load up a new file, my process is always the same: set the
>> representation to VDW, set the radius to 0.3, add a new representation, set
>> it to DynamicBond, set the cutoff to 2.8. Every time.
>>
>> I'd love to be able to speed up this process by setting these
>> representations from the command line. Is that possible?
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>> Ross Williams
>>
>