Re: --show-layers=... alternative

[Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk>]

On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 16:19 +0200, Simon Kagstrom wrote:
> On 2005-04-03, 16:11, Lars Clausen wrote:
> > We could do a slight hack and say that if the argument to
> > --export-layers is in [0-9,-] then it's layer numbers, otherwise it's
> > layer names.  If somebody names all their layers just numbers, they
> > might get confused, and we could emit a warning if a layer name is just
> > digits and dashes.
>
> True. Well, I could try to do some reworking of the patch to integrate it into
> the --show-layers= option instead. The only thing that would worry me then is
> that the option can be hard to understand in the start since it comes in many
> forms. On the other hand, I guess it could be useful to do something like
>
> --show-layers=background,2-4,image

That could be useful.  There also ought to be a warning if a layer is
specified multiple times.

-Lars

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Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk>