The “state”
of Coot is saved on Exit and written to a
file called 0-coot.state.scm (scheme)
0-coot.state.py (python). This
state file contains information about the screen centre, the
clipping, colour map rotation size, the symmetry radius, and other
molecule related parameters such as filename, column labels,
coordinate filename etc..
Use Calculate -> Run Script... to use this file
to re-create the loaded maps and models that you had when you finished
using Coot 1 last time.
A state file can be saved at any time using (save-state)
which saves to file 0-coot.state.scm or
(save-state-filename "thing.scm") which saves to file
thing.scm.
When Coot starts it can optionally run the commands in
0-coot.state.scm.
Use (set-run-state-file-status i)
to change the behaviour: i is 0 to never run this
state file at
startup, i is
1 to get a dialog option (this is the default) and i
is 2 to run the commands without question.