How to use geomery parameter with 'attach' command?

[Glucksistemi]

I just can't understand at all what is possible values and where I can get any reference about using this value. So I cannot understand how to use it correctly. Please share any clues I can use to understand the mechanism

[JarrettSJohnson]

Thanks for submitting this issue. This is something that needs work on the Wiki as well.

The geometry parameter here refers to the steric number of that atom (number of other atoms bound to it) to determine the atoms geometry.

Here's an example of a list of elements and their geom value found in alanine:

'N + 4'
'C + 4'
'C + 3'
'O + 3'
'C + 4'
'O + 4'
'H + 1'
'H + 1'
'H + 1'
'H + 1'
'H + 1'
'H + 1'
'H + 1'

[ziyuanzhao2000]

Hi, I have a related question so I'm not opening another issue to ask. Hope that's okay! I'm curious how pymol builder determines the coordinates of any newly added atoms. I tried to study the source code and traced it down to cmd.replace and editor.attach_fragment. I feel like it might has to do with geometry argument for the replace or attach command but I'm not sure. I see this question is still open, so I just want to follow up and ask about this. Thanks!