On 2017-03-08, Kornel Benko wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 8. März 2017 um 00:39:12, schrieb Scott Kostyshak 
> <skost...@lyx.org>
>> On Sat, Mar 04, 2017 at 10:10:58PM +0100, Guillaume Munch wrote:

>> > I am not sure to understand since I am not familiar with this part of LyX.
>> > But I will push a patch that makes "buffer-export *" synonymous to
>> > buffer-export so that your patch becomes simpler.

>> Thanks, that does make things more simple. I made a couple of additions
>> at a3e1b6b7 and cd87bd72.

>> The problem now is that '*' is interpreted by some shells. So to export
>> from the command line on e.g. bash, one cannot do:

>>   lyx -e * file.lyx

>> and instead must do

>>   lyx -e '*' file.lyx

> Why not having lyx -e default file.lyx ?

>> Would you be opposed to using a different symbol that is not interpreted
>> by common shells?

I prefer *, because 

* it is established as wildcard symbol and even «'*'» is shorter than
  «default»
* it is clearly separable from a file name (in contrast to "default").

Günter

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