Re: Empty lines in output of cal(1)

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Mon, 29 Jun 2020, Kimmo Suominen wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 11:29:10AM -0700, Paul Goyette wrote:
> > Also note that when using ``cal -r'' it still displays 5 lines of
> > output, even though only 3 (or 4) lines contain any day-numbers.
> > This results in somewhat excessive vertical white-spacing.
>
> When outputting a full year (and possibly in other cases where more
> than one "row" of months is output) the fixed number of display
> lines per month looks more pleasing to the eye, I think.
>
> But in the single "row" case it would probably be fine to suppress
> the empty lines.  It would seem unlikely that anything depends on
> the fixed number of output lines.  What do you think?
>
> https://www.netbsd.org/~kim/cal-suppress-empty-output-lines.diff

It really doesn't matter much to me.  But if it is supposed to be
"bit-for-bit compatable" with something else, maybe it's best not
to mess with it any more.  :)



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