From: Miroslav Lichvar Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2022 14:14:24 +0000 (+0100) Subject: mention automatic height/width in whiptail man page X-Git-Tag: r0-52-23~7 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=22f3ce533705ed26c8b74e52b284056807d8c87b;p=thirdparty%2Fnewt.git mention automatic height/width in whiptail man page --- diff --git a/whiptail.1 b/whiptail.1 index ea212a8..50d2609 100644 --- a/whiptail.1 +++ b/whiptail.1 @@ -290,6 +290,11 @@ To avoid this, and start some text in, for example, a menubox item, with a dash, whiptail honours the getopt convention of accepting the special argument "\-\-" which means that all following arguments with dashes are to be treated verbatim and not parsed as options. + +If the specified height, width, or menu/list-height is zero, +.BR whiptail +will increase the values as needed in order to display all information. + .SH DIAGNOSTICS Exit status is 0 if .BR whiptail " is exited by pressing the " Yes " or " OK