[PATCH]: today highlighting in [n]cal

[Simon 'corecode' Schubert]

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
> 
> it works for ncal 

I didn't try it on FreeBSD, but from inspecting the code, you only 
modified mkmonthb(), which is called for the cal-style layout, but not for 
the ncal-style layout (then mkmonth() is called).

>> - 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
> 
> I am not sure what you mean by year printing.... can you give me the
> exact command line?

just try "cal 2009" or so, basically use printyear[b].

cheers
   simon

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