Agreed. And the default would still be 3, right? For back compatibility. What's the short version of the flag -z? And would the auto mode try to still limit itself to a rectangle? Or stretch indefinitely? I appreciate your time brainstorming about this, Karel. Thank you. Regards, Gennady Kovshenin On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 5:33 PM, Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 09:52:36PM +0600, Gennady Kovshenin wrote: >> I like the format=auto idea. But we can keep it to just the number of >> columns instead of a full CxR format. > > It would be the best to talk about number of months ;-) > >> i.e. format=2 (2x6), format=3 (3x4), format=4 (4x3), and so on. >> perhaps the parameter should be called --columns/-c instead of format. >> We can either have an additional auto value to the format, or have it >> be on by default. >> Having auto on by default means breaking compatibility. Some users >> might be parsing output expecting the default 3x4 view in place and if >> we abruptly change this to be stretched automatically their scripts >> might break. >> >> Any thoughts on the above? --format vs. --columns? And the default >> value thereof. > > Or something else --horizontal-months[=<num>|auto] > > and think we can support arbitrary <num> in range 1-12. > > Karel > > -- > Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> > http://karelzak.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
