On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 10:29:02AM +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> Li Zefan wrote:
> >> - add an option to the cal command to control highlight date
> >> (cal -v YYYY/MM/DD)
> >
> > I've done this TODO.
TODO is usually poor brain dump, it means nothing final :-)
> > If the specified date is within the displayed calendar(s), this date will
> > be highlighted.
>
> Hi,
>
> I implemented the original "highlight today" functionality.
> I hadn't noticed this TODO actually, but I'm wondering
> why you chose that interface. I.E. why the -v option?
> Would -h not be more appropriate?
both -v and -h are bad (sounds like verbose and help).
> Even better would be to allow specifying the day in the
> same way cal already supports specifying the month and year.
>
> I.E. if you do `cal dd mm yyyy` then that day would be highlighted?
cal [[[dd] month] year]
Sounds good... although I hate the case that I need next month and
I have to specify year too.
Maybe we can also implement:
cal +1m --> current date +1 month
cal +1d +1w --> Fri next week (today is Thu)
Karel
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Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx>
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