Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:10:05 +0100 (CET) From: Alexander Best <alexbestms@wwu.de> To: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r204849 - head/usr.bin/ncal Message-ID: <permail-20100309191005f0889e84000027b3-a_best01@message-id.uni-muenster.de> In-Reply-To: <20100309110017.GG1761@mavetju.org>
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Edwin Groothuis schrieb am 2010-03-09: > On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 01:39:28AM +0100, Alexander Best wrote: > > Edwin Groothuis schrieb am 2010-03-08: > > > On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 12:16:04AM +0100, Alexander Best wrote: > > > > could you have another look at the -J option? it seems > > > > highlighting > > > > still > > > Aha, only -J in "month only" view is still not working. Will take > > > care of it later. Also add a bunch of regression tests to it, > > > because > > > of all of this. > > > > isn't enabled in combination with it. also i'm wondering what > > > > the > > > > purpose of > > > > the -b switch is. running `cal` and `ncal -b` seems to be doing > > > > the > > > > very same > > > > thing (setting flag_backward = 1). > > > You can't run "cal" until you have installed it, while being able > > > to run "ncal -b" and coming into "cal" mode is kind of nice. > > thanks for the hint. the -b switch definitely comes in handy when > > `cal` isn't > > available, because one is running ncal from /usr/src/usr.bin. > > will the -b switch disappear once you ncal/cal works properly with > > highlighting? > It will be hard to write proper regression tests if you can't > properly specify what you want :-) oh right. forgot about the regression tests. ;) > > what confused me a little is the output of something like `ncal 10 > > 2011`. > > judging from ncal(1) i guessed the output to be October of 2011, > > yet the > > output is all months from October 2011 to September 2012. > Yeah, fixed. thanks. :) > > i tried `ncal -m 10 2011` instead and the output was just the same. > > so what's > > the right way to see the entry for lets say October 2011? > > another issue i'm having is the -m switch in combination with f and > > p. judging > > from ncal(1) `ncal -m 3p` should output February 2010 and `ncal -m > > 3f` April > > 2010. however instead of printing the previous and next month the > > previous and > > next year gets printed. > If I understand correctly: > -m 1 gives this years January (which is 2010) > -m 1p gives the previous January (which is 2010) > -m 1f gives the next January (which is 2011) > -m 9 gives this years September (which is 2010) > -m 9p gives the previous September (which is 2009) > -m 9f gives the next September (which is 2010) > And now the tricky one: > -m 3 gives this years March (which is 2010) > -m 3p gives the previous March (which is 2009) > -m 3f gives the next March (which is 2011) ahh. now i understand the purpose of "p" and "f" in combination with the "-m" switch. sorry for the misunderstanding. after reading the ncal(1) entry for the "-m" switch i was under the impression that e.g. "-m 3p" takes the third month of this year (march) and displays the previous month (february), whereas "-m 3f" would display the next month after march (being april). maybe ncal(1) could be a bit more precise about what "p" and "f" are for. > Edwin
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