Karel Zak wrote: > 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). agreed. > >> 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 That separate issue is mostly handled by `cal -3` :) Personally I alias cal='cal -3' > cal +1d +1w --> Fri next week (today is Thu) Yes that would be useful, though mostly handled by the date command already: date -d 'fri +1 week' See also: http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/day cheers, Pádraig. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux-ng" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
