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From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_cmm.chem.upenn.edu)
Date: Wed Sep 27 2006 - 13:20:46 CDT

On 9/27/06, Jeffrey A Tibbitt <JTibbitt_at_odu.edu> wrote:
> VMD Users,
>
> In the vmd command window there is normally a prompt like:
>
> vmd>
>
> Sometimes a key on the keyboard is hit accidentally and this changes the
> prompt to:
>
> ?
>
> Does anyone know a key sequence that can be typed that will exit out of this
> question mark prompt and return to the normal vmd> prompt?

that mean the tcl interpreter is waiting for you to close a brace,
so try } or ] or ) followed by enter.

you may need to enter it a couple of times.

axel.

>
> Thanks,
> Jeff Tibbitt
> jtibbitt_at_odu.edu
> 

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