Jérôme Hénin

Ideas to improve this: 1) add a "decoupling" keyword that makes lambda go from 1 to 0. Problem: then the role of forceConstant and targetForceConstant is not very clear. 2)...

In progress with #485

To make this issue workable over a finite time, I am rephrasing it to something more focused.

A different, less conservative perspective: we could make `parse_echo` the default behavior, and explicitly add the` parse_default` flag to parameters that we think should always be in the output. Thoughts...

This is not guiding or informing current development. Should we close it?

I don't. I suspect this will be done when the use case that requires it shows up.

For reference, this is connected to PR #487

For that I think you'll still need custom functions or scripts. This feature is useful when several variables are needed that are different combinations of the same components. Then they'll...

Hi @giacomofiorin This feature is getting more useful with additions by @HanatoK (PR coming soon). Another possible pathway is to make a colvar depend on another colvar, but this seems...

The current dependency system would allow a CVC to have several parent colvars, just the same way a colvar can have several parent biases.