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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Jul 24 2020 - 14:40:45 CDT

No problem, I've had a few emails about this, so it's something I'm
definitely working on fixing with the new TkCon version for Tk 8.6.x.

Best,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 07:31:02PM +0000, Chang, Christopher wrote:
> Thanks John. Sorry for the dupe, I just joined the mailing list and didn't find your prior mention when I searched the existing posts.
>
> Looking forward to the new version.
>
> Chris
>
> ???On 7/24/20, 12:36 PM, "John Stone" <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> This is a bug in the behavior of TkCon w/ Tk 8.6, which is required
> for MacOS X Catalina... I'm working on updating the TkCon version we
> ship with VMD to a newer version that should hopefully cure this,
> which I also described briefly a few days back on the mailing list when
> this issue was mentioned by others.
>
> Best,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 10:16:32PM +0000, Chang, Christopher wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> >
> > Long-time VMD user that was crushed to learn about the Catalina
> > incompatibility, and thrilled to find the developers were adapting
> > regardless. Thank you!
> >
> > Much of my productivity over the years came about from the muscle
> > memory to up-arrow to get the last command run in TK Console. When I did
> > that now, the cursor just migrates to the previous line in the console...
> >
> > I'm assuming/hoping that this behavior can be set in .vmdrc? If so,
> > could someone offer the syntax?
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks; Chris
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> > Christopher H. Chang, Ph.D.
> >
> > Computational Scientist
> >
> > National Renewable Energy Laboratory
> >
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> >
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> >
> >
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