[PATCH]: today highlighting in [n]cal

[Roman Divacky]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 01:53:56PM +0200, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:
> 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).
 
yes... and if I read the code correctly the very same approach should
work for the mkmonth() as well.. it should be copy'n'paste

> >>- 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].

this works