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Hi @Bill-Gray ,

it all started with the difficulties on using ALT key in the terminal in MacOS. I actually solved it and discovered many functionalities in such shortcuts, that now I can use. I have tried documenting some of them.

Cheers,

Paco

[Bill-Gray]

Hi Paco - sorry, finally getting around to catching up on a long list of things...

Some of those were undocumented because they don't work all that well, or represented things I was playing around with. The use of Alt-G to generate alternative orbits is the one I really need to work on. (Orbital Monte Carlo (pick variant orbits using the covariance matrix) is a heck of a lot faster than observational MC (where you randomize the observations a bit and do a least-squares fit). But for sufficiently short arcs, orbital MC can diverge. I need to have Find_Orb figure that out. It should compute a few orbital MC variants, and check to see if they make sense. If they do, great; use orbital MC and generate variants at tremendous speed. If not, fall back on observational MC. But I digress.)

I think I'll just pull this and sort out which bits ought to be removed or should be labelled "DANGER : this isn't quite ready yet" later.

I've heard about issues with the Alt key on Macs before. The only solution Eric Christensen found was to revise the code so that those functions were controlled by some other key hit. I gather you've found a way to get a Mac to respond to Alt key combinations?