Yes, yours is natural. Some of the others were stretching it a bit.
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On August 5, 2018 11:10:47 AM Mark Waddingham via use-livecode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:

On 2018-08-05 17:36, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote:
This is getting pretty contorted and is becoming less like natural
language. For what it's worth, I have never been confused by the
current use of filter. I think of it as pouring soup through a wire
strainer. Filtering "with" keeps the solids. Filtering "without" dumps
them and keeps the liquid.

I honestly can't see how:

filter lines of X with Y

Is less contorted and more natural language than:

filter X by keeping lines matching Y

The former *requires* 'arcane' knowledge to comprehend (it is a
significant contraction of concepts - you need to know the contractions
precisely to understand it!) - the latter does precisely what it says -
it is actually a fully correct and full English sentence...

Warmest Regards,

Mark.

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