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I hope anyone who uses something like this has the grace to fall back to https://linux.die.net/man/1/dialog for non-GUI users. Or https://github.com/Textualize/textual if they want to be faaaaancy.

Well, after a bit of fiddling, Textual also worked on my Android running Termux.

Spiffy!

I like this one a bit less than I do the all text mode, though I will have to go through a bunch of widgets to see if that remains true.

Requiring Python seems a bit excessive, compared to the other one with works more lime the author intended, I believe.

Thanks for these. Interesting to look at.

Textual is new and fancy. Dialog has been on pretty much every linux system for a quarter century.

Yes. It shows. I like that quarter century stuff.

On my Note phone, I just tried dialog. Spiffy!

I used Termux, and did this for a hello world:

     pkg install dialog
     dialog "hello there" 20 3

And BAM! There it is rendered in text, easy peasy.

Thanks for the reference. I agree with you.

Or for those won't don't want to install dialog, just do your ui forms directly from the shell: https://github.com/polijan/sourcedialog

man that's an ugly man page. The FreeBSD one is a lot easier to read.