Maybe an additional -loglevel which allows you set the level explicitly? -verbose to me would set the log level to verbose overall & -noverbose would set it back to the default.

Also tangentially, I would also bring up the handling of some of these flags which affect the state: using -verbose also sets the verbose setting which is then saved wirh the user settings. I find this annoying as I would rather have the command line flags like this be *temporary* and not affect the actual setting itself. To me changing the value directly in the GUI should (as it does now). I believe I opened an issue about this already.

On Aug 26, 2021, at 12:00 PM, pd-dev-request@lists.iem.at wrote:

with the latter in mind, we might even use multiple "-noverbose" flags 
to lower the verbosity (at least of the stderr) below post() - so that 
only errors would be visible.

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