On 25/02/2026 12:58, Dr. Werner Fink wrote:
Hi,

I've a bug report about dialog not supporting the Alt key. Means
e.g. that

    dialog --yesno Hallo 6 30

return for both Alt-y and Alt-n or Alt-Y and Alt-N the value 255.
This is nowadays somehow uncommon[1].  It would very helpful
to be able to navigate not only with cursor or tab keys but
also with the ALt and the coloured characters of the buttons.


Werner

[1] https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1257107

It is probably difficult to do anything different for those terminal emulators that interpret the Alt/Meta modifier as "insert an ASCII ESC character before the typed character".

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