From: Piotr Durlej <pdurlej@inetbox.org>
Subject: Re: cal: add option to highlight the current day
To: Johannes Thyssen Tishman <jtt@openbsd.org>, Job Snijders <job@bsd.nl>, tech@openbsd.org
Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2026 04:08:06 +0200

On Fri, Jul 31, 2026 at 05:29:15PM -0700, patrick keshishian wrote:
> 
> How about an environment variable to enable the highlight for
> those who want this option, which can be put in their .profile,
> retaining the age-long behavior as default for the rest?
> 
> Something like the following patch on top of your proposal.
> 
> --patrick

I'm not sure why this would be added to the base system cal(1), especially
when ncal(1) already exists as a package and does the job.

Kind regards,
Piotr Durlej