On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 09:59:15AM +0100, Sami Kerola wrote:
> On 29 April 2013 01:24, Pádraig Brady <P@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 04/28/2013 06:11 PM, Sami Kerola wrote:
> >> Requires similar trick as done with more to by pass check whether a
> >> session is or isn't interactive.
> >
> > I wonder should we have an option or env variable to force highlighting?
> > I've wanted a couple of times to pipe output like:
> > cal --color=always | ansi2html.sh
yep, coreutils way:
--color[=WHEN]
where WHEN is 'auto', 'never' or 'always'.
Sami, see lib/colors.c. It would be nice to have WHEN evaluation
(conversion to some enum value) on one place and use the code
in dmesg --color[=WHEN] too.
> Your proposal makes totally sense. Karel, please wait a moment (till
> tomorrow) that I have a change to rewrite this change to be more
> useful. I'll send new patch to the list, and update my git sometime
> off-work-hour.
Maybe we can use more colors in the cal(1) output. What about a
weekend days, month name, week days line etc. ?
I personally believe that there is still a lot of places where we can
improve command line usability and readability. (See for example
"dmesg -H" in the latest release.)
Karel
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