[PATCH]: today highlighting in [n]cal

Roman Divacky rdivacky at freebsd.org
Mon Apr 20 17:48:14 UTC 2009


On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 06:24:11PM +0200, Alexey Shuvaev wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 04:02:19PM +0200, Roman Divacky wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 11:21:26AM +0200, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:
> > > Hey Roman,
> > > 
> > > Roman Divacky wrote:
> > > >I made this patch that highlights today in cal/ncal just like gnu
> > > >cal does..
> > > >
> > > >	www.vlakno.cz/~rdivacky/cal.patch
> > > 
> > > Thanks for this patch, I've been meaning to hack one up properly, but 
> > > never got to it.  They problems I was facing seem to exist also with your 
> > > patch:
> > > 
> > > - only works for wide (cal) mode, not ncal mode
> > > - probably won't work properly with year displays:  the year printing 
> > > parts of the code use a length argument to printf ("%*s"), which will 
> > > confuse escape sequences with actual printed characters
> > 
> > after addressing Simon's concerns here's a new patch:
> > 
> > 	www.vlakno.cz/~rdivacky/cal2.patch
> > 
> > this disables the highlighting for year printing because it's broken
> > and introduces the highlighting to ncal as well...
> >
> Nice!
> It depends on one more lib now:
> 
> Modified:
> ~> ldd /usr/bin/ncal 
> /usr/bin/ncal:
>         libcalendar.so.4 => /usr/lib/libcalendar.so.4 (0x800643000)
>         libncurses.so.7 => /lib/libncurses.so.7 (0x800745000)
>         libc.so.7 => /lib/libc.so.7 (0x80088f000)
> 
> Old:
> ~> ldd /home/jails/kde4/usr/bin/ncal
> /home/jails/kde4/usr/bin/ncal:
>         libcalendar.so.4 => /usr/lib/libcalendar.so.4 (0x800642000)
>         libc.so.7 => /lib/libc.so.7 (0x800744000)
 
yes.... so?

> Does it work good in single user mode?
> (Don't want to go to it right now myself).
> OTOH, who needs cal/ncal in single user mode? :)

I guess it should.. it depends strictly on terminal, didnt test it though


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