Yet another person who has noticed this. Highlighting the current date
is rather handy for interactive use.
The basis of #904839 is incorrect. Without that change `cal` uses
isatty() to determine whether output is a terminal. If not a terminal,
highlighting is disabled (compare `ncal -b` and
Package: ncal
Version: 12.1.7+nmu3
Followup-For: Bug #972950
Dear Maintainer,
The regression is annoying, but if absolute compatibility with original `cal`
must be maintained, I can live with that. However, in that case the man page
needs to be corrected.
Note to other users: using `ncal -b`
Package: ncal
Version: 12.1.7
Severity: normal
Earlier versions of ncal used to highlight the current day when
invoked as "cal", i believe.
now, the current day is highlighted when invoked as "ncal" but it is
not highlighted when invoked as "cal".
--dkg
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