On Thu Jul 7 11, Tobias Rehbein wrote: > Hi list, > > being the maintainer of www/nanoblogger, which uses cal(1) to generate the > blog > calendar, I noticed that ncal(1), and therefore cal(1), prints control > sequences > to stdout in order to highlight the current date. This scrambles the calendar > generated by nanoblogger. > > I fixed this issue in the port but talking to one of the folks of our local > unix > user group I was asked why I am not fixing this in ncal(1) as the sane > behaviour > would be to omit control sequences if stdout is not a tty. Thinking about > that I > decided to create a patch: > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/158580 > > I just wanted to ask you fellow FreeBSD users what you think about this issue > as > feedback in PRs tends to be slow.
hi there, i've assigned your PR to Edwin Groothuis, who has been dealing with ncal(1) a lot lately. I think chances are pretty high he's going to commit your patch this month. cheers. alex > > Regards Tobias _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
