[Remind-Fans] Please test git HEAD (soon to be 3.3.0) was Re: Using SPECIAL COLOR in the agenda view?

[Tim Chase]

On 2020-01-25 17:47, Dianne Skoll wrote:
> - IMPROVEMENT: In calendar mode ("-c" option), Remind automatically
> adjusts the width of the calendar to fit the terminal window if
> standard output is a TTY.

This is wonderful!  I soooo frequently used

  -c+ -w$COLUMNS

to get that (which only worked in certain shells like bash, ksh, and
zsh, because they set/updated $COLUMS, but /bin/sh didn't
automatically set/update that variable).  Will be nice to have that
happen automatically.  I appreciate how it's smart about knowing
whether the output is a TTY or not:

  $ rem -c+ # produces full-width
  $ rem -c+ | cat # defaults to 80 wide

(I might have poked at ComputeCalWidth to look for edge-cases to
test, but it appears to be working uneventfully in all the cases I
came up with)

> - NEW FEATURE: Add support for $DefaultColor system variable,
> suggested by Tim Chase.
> 
> - NEW FEATURE: The "-@" command-line option allows colored reminders
>   in Agenda Mode as well as in Calendar Mode.  It also adds support
> for terminal emulators that can handle the xterm 256-color escape
> sequences as well as the true 24-bit color escape sequences.

I'm not sure if you can hear the chortle of delight from here in
north-TX, but I banged on this with all my weird test cases and it
handled every one of them exactly right.  It broke gracefully in a
couple "Tim is doing something stupid" cases, but it was easy to
understand why. (mostly a "change the color by emitting an ANSI
sequence in msgsuffix, it doesn't try to reset the color when done",
but that's obviously doing exactly what I told it to.  So not a bug.
Except maybe in the user. ;-)

Still giddy at this impending arrival in the soon-to-be-3.3.0
release.  Congratulations!

Thanks so much, and here's thanks for your many years of
work on remind!

-tim