Am Mittwoch, 8. März 2017 um 11:48:12, schrieb Guenter Milde 
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> 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

But we already use 'pdf2,dvi,...'. No difference to 'default' from my pov. The 
parameter
stays for format (not possible to mix with file name), so I do not see a 
problem.

        Kornel

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