On 2026/02/25 14:25:03 +0000, Ian Abbott wrote: > 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".
On bash prompt I do a `cat -A` shows for Alt-x, Alt-y, and Alt-n
^[x^[y^[n
but bindkey only accepts single characters as it seems not to
identify events but characters only (curses_key). Also the
resulting action can not bind to a defined button or its label
(dialog_key).
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