Li Zefan wrote: >> both -v and -h are bad (sounds like verbose and help). > > Then how about -H ? Normally we don't use -H to print help information, do we? > >> cal [[[dd] month] year] > > Sounds good, we can print a calendar for the year with a date highlighted: > > cal -y dd mm yy yes > But for the current implementation, this won't print a calendar for the whole > year: > > cal -y mm yy > > So it will be inconsistant ? I wouldn't worry about that inconsistancy. But I notice that `cal` from bsdmanutils on debian does print the whole year for this case. So I would modify util-linux-ng cal to do that also. > >> Maybe we can also implement: >> >> cal +1m --> current date +1 month >> cal +1d +1w --> Fri next week (today is Thu) > > Seems not tough to implement this functionality. :) Implementation is never the issue, interface is, and I'm not sure it worth complicating the interface for this functionality. Personally I think cal should present a table for visual inspection by a user. Highlighting "today" is good, because the user can't otherwise visually determine what today is. Highlighting a specific date is questionable actually, because the user can visually determine it. It's a simple extension of the interface though, so it is probably OK. Also it will help with automated testing. Highlighting "Fri next week" is just taking it too far I think. thanks, 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
