Am Mittwoch, 8. März 2017 um 11:48:12, schrieb Guenter Milde <mi...@users.sf.net> > 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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