Re: cal: lack of color support disables "standout mode"

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On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 09:05:41AM +0000, Nuno Silva wrote:
> The cal utility seems to check for color support in the current $TERM in
> order to turn standout mode on or off. This means that, in a monochrome
> terminal, the current/requested day is not highlighted, even if the
> terminal has standout mode defined.

Fixed. Thanks for your report.

> While I can force this with --color=always, I'd say it's slightly
> confusing that the highlighting is controlled by --color=. If this
> behaviour is kept, perhaps the man page could say something about this?

The idea has been to colorize another things too (week days, weekend,
...), but it has never been implemented :-)

The option name is the same as we use in another utils for this
purpose. 

    Karel

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