I think the preferences are ignored when I use "coot --auto mymap.mtz" or such to load the map from command line. I noticed because I always set map sampling rate to 2.5, and when --auto option is used from command line, I am positive maps are rendered with the default value of 1.5. Curiously, after quitting coot and restarting it and picking the last state, it's the same map but this time sampled at 2.5.
This is exactly the reason I don't use the "View result of refinement in Coot" button in ccp4i - it ignores whatever preferences I have set previously. So I used to simply open coot and load the latest pdb/mtz from the current folder manually, but then I thought myself smarter than that and wrote a little script that picks the latest pdb/mtz from the current folder and opens them in coot. To my dismay, the preferences are ignored and I end up using the script but then going through quit/restart routine - works, but not perfect. I can think of couple of more elegant workarounds, but the question remains - why coot local ignores preferences whenever you supply options in a command line? Bug or feature? Cheers, Ed. -- Ed Pozharski <[email protected]>
