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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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