Right click layer name identification in Photoshop

[Ghoul Fool]

Got a new layer? Hover the mouse over of some pixels on that layer and you can identify what layers exist at that point. - You all know this!

Background + My Lovely Layer. All is good

However, when you rename the layer to "-" (hyphen minus without the quotes) you get this:

Any other layer names that are ignored by Photoshop??

[Ged_Traynor]

@Ghoul Fool just tested with Photoshop version 25.9.1 and can confirm the issue

[Ghoul Fool]

I suspect it's gone unnoticed for years. Just booted up an old hard drive - it's also in version 5.0.2, as in pre CC.

[Ged_Traynor]

Could be, I've never used the - sign in naming layers

[Ghoul Fool]

It's not an obvious choice of layer name (nor will it ever replace the time honoured classic Layer 1 copy copy copy) but I was creating some glyphs for a typeface and voilà!

[Pete.Green]

Thanks for the report on this Ghoul -- it's definitely interesting and has workarounds (add any other character to the layer name), however there are likely very few workflows that this affects. I don't suspect there will be a fix for this any time soon but we'll keep an eye on it.

Cheers