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When you set a filter on inserters it does **not** enable the "use filters" checkbox, if you set it on loaders it does enable it.

- new world
- /editor
- place hidden loader
- place an inserter
- run `/c game.player.selected.set_filter(1, {name = "wood"})` on both
- notice the inserter still has the "use filter" checkbox disabled
- notice the loader has the "use filter" checkbox enabled

Expected behavior: you are just setting the filter, the loader should not enable filter mode on its own if its "none", it should need a second api call to LuaEntity::loader_filter_mode just like the inserter would need a second api call to LuaEntity::use_filters.

Thanks for the report however I don't believe this will be changing. You can set the filter mode after writing the filter if you want to force it to one value.