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> I'm a lurker on this list, so I realize that my opinions and suggestions
> are probably not important to anyone. Feel free to ignore them. However, I
> think that perhaps the features you are discussing here are specific
> subsets of a more general feature that many users might find useful.
> 
> The feature I'm referring to is what you might call a general selection
> filter. The idea is that with a filter applied, only objects matching the
> filter criteria can be selected and therefore modified (at least with the
> mouse, I imagine that you could still modify anything from the command
> interface). With a tool like this, you could specify "silk screen objects"
> and "text objects". This would restrict you to being able to modify silk
> screen text. You could also specify "not text", or "tracks", or
> "components"... etc. to restrict selections to those items.
> 
> This is not a feature request on my part, nor is it a request for any
> action. I have no idea how hard it would be to implement, or if it's even
> possible given how things are structured. It's just an idea that you might
> want to consider if you're thinking about changing the features previously
> mentioned.

There are "regular expressions" but I tried it but did not like it, something else in common use?