On Tue, 20 Sep 2011, Michal Suchanek wrote:

Excerpts from Thomas Dickey's message of Tue Sep 20 01:25:46 +0200 2011:
On Mon, 19 Sep 2011, Michal Suchanek wrote:

Package: dialog
Version: 1.1-20110707-1
Severity: normal

From the man page:

read further, it is configurable (look for DIALOG_ESC).


Any reason that

1) this is set with a variable, not a command argument

...to make scripting more readable.  As a command argument, the typical
hacker will use a constant.  I don't like to encourage bad habits.

2) is not referenced in the DIAGNOSTICS section where this is very
relevant

merely overlooked ;-)

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Thomas E. Dickey
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