From 22f3ce533705ed26c8b74e52b284056807d8c87b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Miroslav Lichvar Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2022 15:14:24 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] mention automatic height/width in whiptail man page --- whiptail.1 | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) 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 -- 2.47.3