Re: Display backslash-n in dialog?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Michael D. Setzer II wrote:

> From the man dialog Version: 1.1-20100428 from Fedora 14.
>
> man dialog section on color
>
> --colors
>  Interpret embedded "\Z" sequences in the dialog text by the fol-
>   lowing character, which tells dialog  to  set  colors  or  video
>   attributes: 0 through 7 are the ANSI used in curses: black, red,
>   green, yellow, blue, magenta, cyan and white respectively.  Bold
>    is  set  by  'b', reset by 'B'.  Reverse is set by 'r', reset by
>    'R'.  Underline is set by 'u', reset by 'U'.  The  settings  are
>    cumulative,  e.g.,  "\Zb\Z1" makes the following text bold (per-
>    haps bright) red.  Restore normal settings with "\Zn".
>
> Without the --colors don't know how \Z would be handled, or what
> happens with what appears after the \Z

yes (without --colors, \Z has no special meaning).

--
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net