Bug 208518

Summary: cal highlight has no commandline option
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: JW <ohtmvyyn>
Component: util-linuxAssignee: Karel Zak <kzak>
Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM QA Contact: Ben Levenson <benl>
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Description JW 2006-09-29 03:04:20 UTC 
Description of problem:
There is no way to control 'cal' highlight of current date from command-line. It
is possible but requires reading of source code to figure out a way. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
util-linux-2.13-pre6

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. cal
2. cal --help
3. TERM= cal
  
Actual results:
1. current date highlighted
2. no option to control highlight
3. no highligh, but had to check source code first

Expected results:
Normally options to control program behavior are done from command-line.

Additional info:
Fortunately cal has plenty of options available. Perhaps it would be better to
default to non-highlight anbd allow user to opt for highlight through option
"-v" (with an alias).  But also, it might be useful to generalize to
highlighting specific day(s) and not just today, with "-v YYYY/MM/DD" or "-v today".

I have already patched for above change, but will not attach it because normal
RedHat behavior is to reject everything I submit.
Comment 1 Karel Zak 2006-10-05 14:05:34 UTC 
This is good idea, but we're very conservative with new command line options to
basic system utils. We prefer add these changes to upstream code rather than
create a distribution specific option.
Comment 2 Karel Zak 2007-04-06 10:28:49 UTC 
Please, send the patch (to me or to upstream mailing list:
util-linux-ng(at)vger.kernel.org or add it to BZ as attachment). Thanks.
Comment 3 Karel Zak 2007-09-18 08:06:36 UTC 
Well, this feature will be added to version util-linux-ng-2.14.