calendar 'cal' is not displaying correctly

[ura718]

Hello

I have recently upgraded both my mac book pro and mac book air from Yosemite to High Sierra. And I noticed that when I open up a terminal and type in the 'cal' command to see calendar. The highlighted date is not displaying properly. Instead it looks like its surrounded by these brackets $<2> 9$<2>. Does anyone know how to fix this?

$ cal

January 2018
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
1 2 3 4 5 6
7 8 $<2> 9$<2> 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
28 29 30 31

 

[fivenotrump]

Hello

I have recently upgraded both my mac book pro and mac book air from Yosemite to High Sierra. And I noticed that when I open up a terminal and type in the 'cal' command to see calendar. The highlighted date is not displaying properly. Instead it looks like its surrounded by these brackets $<2> 9$<2>. Does anyone know how to fix this?

$ cal

January 2018
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
1 2 3 4 5 6
7 8 $<2> 9$<2> 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
28 29 30 31

How is your terminal defined?
Preferences -> Advanced

 

[ura718]

In Preferences-> Advanced there are a lot of many options. Which one should I look at? Thank You.

 

[fivenotrump]

"declare terminal as" – experiment: xterm-256color works for me

 

[dsemf]

In Preferences-> Advanced there are a lot of many options. Which one should I look at? Thank You.

Which Profile are you using and under Advanced, which terminal type is selected?

DS

 

[ura718]

Under Profile in Advanced I am using "Basic Default" profile. Also "declare terminal as" - experiment: xterm-256color is what I have setup as well. However it looks like I am having the same problem in terminal and iterm2 (different terminal). I use the iTerm2 but since its having issues in both terminals I wonder if its something system related? Do I need to update some pluggin that allows the rendering of proper date highlight?

 

[dsemf]

Under Profile in Advanced I am using "Basic Default" profile. Also "declare terminal as" - experiment: xterm-256color is what I have setup as well. However it looks like I am having the same problem in terminal and iterm2 (different terminal). I use the iTerm2 but since its having issues in both terminals I wonder if its something system related? Do I need to update some pluggin that allows the rendering of proper date highlight?

I am able to re-create the problem if I set the terminal type to VT100.

I am curious where the experiment is coming from. I don't have an experiment: xterm-256 option.

DS

 

[fivenotrump]

I am able to re-create the problem if I set the terminal type to VT100.

I am curious where the experiment is coming from. I don't have an experiment: xterm-256 option.

DS

I was just suggesting that the OP experiment with different settings

 

[ura718]

looks like I managed to fix it!

When @dsemf suggested that he was able to recreate it with v100 and xterm-256color where by vt100 breaks the highlight and xterm-256color fixes it I tried to test out the same theory. And initially I had xterm-256color setup which didnt work for me. I played around with changing to vt100 and back to xterm-256color and both were not working. But then I realized that I have .bashrc setup which overrided terminal settings back to vt100. So when I ran 'env' it clearly showed that TERM=vt100 even though inside the terminal GUI settings it was setup for xterm-256color. I adjusted my .bashrc and commented out the overriding feature "#export TERM=vt100". Reran the terminal again and voila! It worked. My calendar is now fixed. Thank you all for the help I really appreciate it!